who led the attack on sand creek
The Sand Creek massacre was a massacre in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the command of U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70â163 Native Americans, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. The location has been designated the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic ...