FETTERMAN, WILLIAM JUDD

1833?–1866, American army officer. In 1861 he enlisted in the Union army from Delaware; he served throughout the Civil War and was twice brevetted for gallant conduct. After the war he remained in the army and was sent, in Nov., 1866, to Fort Phil Kearney in Wyoming. The Fetterman massacre occurred when, despite his unfamiliarity with frontier conditions and methods of indigenous fighting, he volunteered to lead a party of 80 men on supply escort duty. Fetterman ignored orders not to leave the trail and was ambushed by Native Americans under Red Cloud. He and his entire party were killed in the attack.

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Letters of Mari Sandoz
Book by Helen Winter Stauffer, Mari Sandoz; University of Nebraska Press, 1992
Subjects: Authors, American--20th Century--Correspondence, Sandoz, Mari--1896-1966--Correspondence, West (U.S.) In Literature, Western Stories--Authorship
...305 , 313 , 332 ; and M. Sandoz, xxx Faulkner, William, 57 , 58 "Fearbitten" M. Sandoz , 3 , 4 n. 2...xxvi Ferril, Thomas Hornsby, xxv, xxvi, 353 Fetterman, William Judd, 122 , 123 n. 3, 276 -77 Feuchtwanger, Lion...
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With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History
Book by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun, Josephine Waggoner, Emily Levine; University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Subjects: Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux--1857-1945, Brulae Indians--Biography, Brulae Indians--History
...Indians. See Lakota Indians, disease Dole, William P., 105 , 171 n.5 Dorian, Tom, 101...14 Federal Writers Project, xxi , xxiv Fetterman, Lt. William Judd, 94 -95, 167 n.17 Fetterman fight, 79 , 94 -95, 167 n.117 Field...
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Powder River: Let 'Er Buck
Book by Maxwell Struthers Burt, Ross Santee, Constance Lindsay Skinner; Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1938
Subjects: Frontier And Pioneer Life--Wyoming, Powder River (Wyo. And Mont.), Wyoming--History
...371 Far Western place names, 372 , 373 Fetterman, Capt. William Judd, 126 , 127 Fetterman Massacre, 107 Flagg, Jack, 295 Flathead Indians, 47 , 58 Forsyth, Col. James William, 187 Fort Manuel see Forts, Raymond Forts...
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Voices of the American West: The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919 - Vol. 1
Book by Richard E. Jensen, Eli S. Ricker; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: European Americans--Interviews, Frontier And Pioneer Life--United States--History, Indians Of North America--Historiography, Indians Of North America--History, Indians Of North America--Interviews, Pioneers--United States--Interviews, Ricker, Eli Seavey--1843-1926--Relations With Indians
...Sioux), 20 feathers: wearing of, 319 Feeler, William, 82 Fennell (Reverend). See Ffennell, Archer B. Fetterman, Judd, 280 Fetterman, William J., 397 n. 80 Fetterman Fight of 1866, 59...
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A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West
Book by John D. McDermott; University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Subjects: Battlefields--West (U.S.)--Guidebooks, Historic Sites--West (U.S.)--Guidebooks, Indians Of North America--Wars--West (U.S.)--Guidebooks, West (U.S.)--Guidebooks
...greater numbers could surround and dispatch them. The Fetterman Disaster on December 21, 1866, was probably the...young Crazy Horse and a half-dozen others lured William Judd Fetterman and his command of eighty men into following them...
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magazine articles on: Fetterman William Judd  - 2 results

 
 
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Welcome! New Members
Magazine article; American Music Teacher, Vol. 51, December 2001
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.--Membership, Associations--Membership, Music
...Shirley Trissell, Chicago William J. Voltz, Chicago Heidi A...Franklin Karen Bartling, Muncie William C. Cox, Kokomo Anne E. Crump...Dossin, Lafayette Susan S. Fetterman, Shreveport Irena Geyer...Theresa Hsu, Edmond Danny Judd, Broken Arrow Jin-Jung Oh...
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Excerpts from the Past
Magazine article; Risk Management, Vol. 41, March 1994
Subjects: Changes, History, Risk management, United States
...LIABILITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT" by J. Alan Fetterman H. Wayne Snider, February 1972 In recent...itself. "WHY IS RISK CONTROVERSIAL?" by William Leiss and Christina Chociolko, May 1993...tremendous contribution of Rita Epstein, Ron Judd and so many others. We were part of a...


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encyclopedia articles on: Fetterman William Judd  - 5 results

 
 
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Fetterman, William Judd
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FETTERMAN, WILLIAM JUDD 1833? 1866, American army officer...Fort Phil Kearney in Wyoming. The Fetterman massacre occurred when, despite his...of 80 men on supply escort duty. Fetterman ignored orders not to leave the trail...
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Indian Wars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...a powerful native confederacy. In 1811, William H. Harrison defeated the Shawnee Prophet...Cochise , the massacre at Sand Creek , the Fetterman Massacre (see under Fetterman , William Judd), Custers last stand (see Custer, George...
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Carrington, Henry Beebee
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Montana. He planned and built forts C. F. Smith and Phil Kearney on this route. Blamed for the Fetterman massacre (see under Fetterman, William Judd ), he was later exonerated. After his retirement from the army, Carrington was (1869 78...
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Bozeman, John M
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...built forts Reno, Phil Kearney, and C. F. Smith to guard it. However, after the Fetterman Massacre, Dec., 1866 (see under Fetterman, William Judd ), the trail S and E of Fort C. F. Smith was abandoned. In Apr., 1867, Bozeman...
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Red Cloud
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...American warfare against the establishment of the Bozeman Trail (see Bozeman, John M .). The Fetterman Massacre (see Fetterman, William Judd ) in 1866 led to partial abandonment of the trail. Red Clouds continual hostility led the government...


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