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- Troops at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming Territory, 1888, Exhuming Bodies of Soldiers Killed in the 1866 "Fetterman Fight" - In 1866, members of Lakota (Sioux), Tsistsistas (Cheyenne), and Hiinono'ei (Arapaho) tribes wiped out Captain Fetterman and his command near Fort Phil Kearney, blunting U.S. efforts to establish outposts in the Powder River region of Wyoming and Montana. The soldiers' bodies were interred at the fort but were left when the military abandoned the post two years later. In 1888, U.S. troops returned to exhume the bodies.
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Troops at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming Territory, 1888, Exhuming Bodies of Soldiers Killed in the 1866 "Fetterman Fight"
In 1866, members of Lakota (Sioux), Tsistsistas (Cheyenne), and Hiinono'ei (Arapaho) tribes wiped out Captain Fetterman and his command near Fort Phil Kearney, blunting U.S. efforts to establish outposts in the Powder River region of Wyoming and Montana. The soldiers' bodies were interred at the fort but were left when the military abandoned the post two years later. In 1888, U.S. troops returned to exhume the bodies.