Department of the Missouri commander General Winfield Scott Hancock marched 1,400 men, including George Armstrong Custer's recently organized Seventh Cavalry, to Fort Larned in Kansas.  His orders were to negotiate the security of the Santa Fe Trail and he met with Cheyenne and Sioux leaders in their village near Fort Larned in the evening of this day.  He had arrived with a strong force that frightened the families there and the tribes left the village the next day.  Hancock assumed this flight meant warlike intent, sent Custer in pursuit, and burned the abandoned village on April 19,1867.  (By John Osborne)

In order to keep open the Santa Fe Trail, rumored to be under threat from Kiowa tribes, Department of the Missouri commander General Winfield Scott Hancock marched 1,400 men, including George Armstrong Custer's recently organized Seventh Cavalry, to Fort Larned in Kansas.  His orders were to negotiate with the tribal leaders but heavy-handed attempts at this led to worsening relations with the Kiowa, Arapaho, and Cheyenne tribes.  Hancock's burning of an abandoned Cheyenne village on April 19, 1867 summed up this failure.  (By John Osborne)

In a race delayed several days by rough water, the rematch between Walter Brown of  Portland, Maine and Pittsburgh's James Hamill in a race for the national single sculls championship took place at Newburgh, New York.  Brown had won the earlier race in Pittsburgh on May 21, 1867, finishing the five mile race the Monongahela and Ohio rivers in forty-seven minutes and well ahead. This day on the Hudson, however, belonged to Hamill, who led for much of the race and was judged to have finished three lengths ahead before a collision between the two boats. (By John Osborne)

On a day of pouring rain, a reported 15,000 spectators watched Walter Brown of  Portland, Maine wrest the U.S. Single Sculls title away from Pittsburgh's James Hamill in a five mile race with an additional purse of $1000.  Starting just before four in the afternoon because of the weather, Brown led at the half-way point and finished in forty-seven minutes well ahead. Hamill claimed several fouls against Brown but the judges decided the race, the purse, and the title in Brown's favor. Hamill won the rematch against Brown at Newburgh, New York on September 9, 1867. (By John Osborne)

King Kamehamena IV and Queen Emma of Hawaii were friends and admirers of Britain's Queen Victoria and had established the Church of England mission there with plans to build a cathedral church in Honolulu.  Before ground could be broken, the king had died, on Saint Andrew's Day 1863, and when the cornerstone was dedicated on this day, it was his brother, King Kamehalema V, and his widow who presided.  The church, when completed, became the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew and remains today the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii.  (By John Osborne)

New Yorkers had opted for a Constitutional Convention in the 1866 election and, subsequent to a ballot selecting delegates in April 1867 that returned a slight Republican majority, the Convention opened in Albany on this day.  William Wheeler received 100 of the 149 votes cast for president and gave a speech that afternoon.  The gathering met into early 1868 but their resulting deliberations for a new constitution for New York were rejected in the 1868 election, mainly on the strength of Democratic votes.  (By John Osborne)

African-American citizens of Richmond, Virginia engaged in serious street clashes with the town's police force during this day.  Mounted troops cleared the streets eventually and arrested eighteen rioters.  Four Richmond policemen were reportedly injured.  Black animosity towards the police and the new city mayor, all former Confederates, continued to run high and Horace Greeley the next day addressed African-American leaders and pleaded for calm and the disturbances faded. (By John Osborne)

The North American Steamship Company's Santiago de Cuba ran aground near Absecom Beach on the New Jersey coast during bad weather.  With the possibility of the seas worsening and the ship breaking up, the captain ordered the vessel evacuated to the nearby shore.  The transfer went well until the third boat to attempt a landing capsized and six people, including four women and a child, were drowned.  Another crewmember was later drowned during the rescue.  (By John Osborne)