The Chief Who Wanted Peace And Died For It — The Tragic Story Of Black Kettle
Sheridan applied the same logic to the plains Indian campaign.
His winter campaign strategy was a direct extension of the hard war approach: destroy the material foundation of resistance, not just the capacity to fight directly.
Attack the camps rather than just the warriors.
Kill the horses.
Burn the food supply.
Capture the women and children.
The logic was militarily coherent, if morally troubling.
Plains peoples were mobile; their warriors could evade pursuit indefinitely in the summer.
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