Saturday 21 May 2016
Photo, left: Battle of Washita (from Harper's Weekly, December 19, 1868). The Battle of Washita River (also called Battle of the Washita or the Washita Massacre) occurred on November 27, 1868, when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle’s Southern Cheyenne camp...