Fetterman Massacre

…in the massacre of Captain William J. Fetterman and his troop of 80 men (December 21, 1866) as well as in the Wagon Box fight (August 2, 1867), both near Fort Phil Kearny, in Wyoming Territory. Refusing to honour the reservation provisions of the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868),…

…to that point, the so-called Fetterman Massacre reignited the anti-Indigenous sentiment that had flared in the eastern states after the Dakota War of 1862.