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Captain William J. Fetterman (l. c. 1833-1866), best known for the Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands/The Fetterman Massacre in which he and 80 soldiers under his command were killed by the Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance on 21 December 1866 during Red Cloud's War.
Photo by an unknown photographer, Wyoming State Archives.
Image published in My Army life and the Fort Phil. Kearney massacre, with an account of the celebration of "Wyoming opened" by Frances Carrington, 1910.
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Photographer, U. (2024, February 20). Captain William J. Fetterman. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18497/captain-william-j-fetterman/
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