chivvington

Updated: June 27, 2025

Yet these officers united in a report rendered to the President on the 7th of January, 1868, in which they use the following language in reference to the "Chivvington massacre" and the Cheyenne war of 1864: "No one will be astonished that a war ensued which cost the government thirty million dollars, and carried conflagration and death to the border settlements.

Francis Amasa Walker - The Indian Question