Silent Affliction

By "The Cowboy" Jim Gray

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock assembled a massive force of military might power to meet the Cheyenne and other plains tribes in 1867. He arrived at Fort Harker April 1 with seven companies of the 37th U.S. Infantry, Battery B, 4th U.S. Artillery and four companies of the Seventh U. S. Cavalry.

At Harker, two more companies of the Seventh joined the expedition. Hancock was certain that his show of military force would force the Indians to give up their desperate fight for their way of life, sign a treaty of peace, and live forever on the reservation.

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