The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
Soldiers lived in them and tried to defend them.
But the strategic purpose of the forts — protecting civilian use of the Bozeman Trail — was already failing before the end of 1866.
The Day Eighty-One Men Didn’t Come Back
On December 21, 1866, everything changed.
Fort Phil Kearny’s garrison was waiting for the return of a wood train — a routine supply expedition that had gone out that morning to the pinery about four miles from the post.
At about 11 a.m., the lookouts on the fort’s signal tower saw the smoke signals that indicated the wood train was under attack.
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