Massacre at Cheyenne Hole: Lieutenant Austin Henely and the by John H. Monnett

By John H. Monnett

In bloodbath at Cheyenne gap, John H Monnett sifts throughout the a number of interpretations of the development through the years and areas them into right old point of view. before everything, Lieutenant Austin Henely used to be considered as a hero, and his H corporation males have been provided 8 Medals of Honour for his or her bravery within the skirmish. although, later intimations surfaced that the Sappa Creek struggle used to be a bloodbath of the Cheyennes lower than Little Bull, who tried to give up. stories of blameless non-combatants being murdered within the destruction of the camp following the conflict have been universal by way of the early 20th century.

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Miles, are well documented. Recently, William Y. Chalfant has done a fine job reconstructing the details of the Battle of Sappa Creek and the events leading up to it. His maps and knowledge of the local geography and specific routes to the battle site are definitive. Chalfant, like West, considers the atrocity-massacre thesis but with the addition of the Bent account. He concluded, as do most serious non-Indian scholars, that based on available evidence, the atrocity-massacre thesis, although there is much to say for it from the position of Cheyenne oral tradition, is ultimately inconclusive.

S. Army and an independent band of Indians composed principally of Southern Cheyennes. Commanding H Company in the field during the fight at Sappa Creek was Second Lieutenant Austin Henely, West Point class of 1872. At twenty-six, the handsome, articulate Irish immigrant had served as an officer of the 6th Cavalry on the Kansas frontier since 1872. 1 During that period, * On old section maps, the battleground is located on the southwest corner of the northwest quarter and the northwest corner of the southwest quarter, Section 14, township 5 south, range 33 west, in Clinton Township, Rawlins County, about thirty rods east of the west line of the section.

Dr. Mari Sandoz," West asserted, found that discussion of the fight . . was still largely taboo. Either this taboo still prevails, or the details have become blurred with the passage of time, for when the present writer [West] made an inquiry on the matter, no information was forthcoming. " Although West correctly pointed out major errors and inconsistencies in these sources, he failed to examine in depth the major theme that was consistent among most of these admittedly prejudiced sources: that Cheyenne noncombatants, particularly a small child, may have been overtly murdered when H Company, 6th Cavalry, acting on Lieutenant Henely's orders, burned the camp, and that Cheyennes who had come out under a flag of truce to parley with the Page xiv whites were shot down by the troopers and the buffalo hunters.

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