Captain William J. Fetterman

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by Unknown Photographer
published on 20 February 2024

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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