"Jeb" Stuart's Letter About The Battle of Solomon’s Fork
About this episode
The episode discusses the Battle of Solomon’s Fork and the events surrounding the 1857 Cheyenne Campaign using a primary source letter.
Send us Fan Mail A 17-day march ends with a shock of movement on the open Plains: roughly 300 Cheyenne warriors in line of battle and the US cavalry scrambling to form up before the infantry can even arrive. That’s the doorstep of the Battle of Solomon Fork, the 1857 Cheyenne Campaign, and the third chapter in our five-part series on the early Cheyenne Indian Wars leading toward the Sheridan Winter Campaign era. We lean on a gripping primary source, a letter written from camp on Solomon’s Fo...
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