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Battle of Powder River (1865)
The Battle of Powder River, part of the Powder River Expedition, was fought on August 16, 1865, by United States soldiers, and scouts, against the Cheyenne. The battle occurred near the Powder River, in Dakota Territory, in present-day Johnson County, Wyoming, United States.〔(''Frank Joshua North, 1840-1885'' ), Nebraska State Historical Society〕
== The battle ==
In August, 1865, Captain Frank North, along with 48 of his Pawnee Scouts and several other soldiers were keeping up a vigilant search for "Hostile Indians" in Dakota Territory. For two days, the group trailed a band of Cheyenne, who were heading north. The trail showed that the Cheyenne had about 35-40 horses and mules, along with one travois. At 2:00 a.m. on August 16, the Captain and his Scouts caught up with the group, on the Powder River, about 60 miles north of Fort Connor. The small group of either 24 or 27 Cheyennes and 35-40 horses and mules had made their camp for the night, and were asleep. North decided to wait until dawn to attack. In the morning, Captain Frank North's group closed on the camp. Spotting the scouts, the Cheyenne thought the approaching Indians were not the Pawnee Scouts, but friendly Cheyenne, and made no hostile moves. However, the Pawnee suddenly charged in on the Cheyenne, surprising them and killing all 27, including Yellow Woman, who was the stepmother of George Bent. In the battle, North's scouts lost 4 horses killed, but captured two stolen government saddles, a quantity of women's and children's clothing, two U.S. Infantry coats issued by Colonel Moonlight to the Indians in the spring of 1865, 18 horses, and 17 mules, making a total of 35 animals. Four of these animals had U.S. government brands showing they had recently been captured in the Battle's of Red Buttes, or Platte Bridge Station, that had both occurred on July 26, 1865, near present-day Casper, Wyoming. One captured horse also belonged to the Overland Stage company. There is no Cheyenne narrative history for the battle because every Native American present was killed by Captain North's men. In his 1915 book, The Fighting Cheyennes, George Bird Grinnell remarked on the Southern Cheyennes he interviewed about the engagement that "The Southern Cheyennes do not appear to know of any fight in which twenty-four or twenty-seven Cheyennes were killed. It seems, probable, therefore, that this whole party of twenty-four was killed and that the Southern Cheyenne knew nothing of it."
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