The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
Captain William Judd Fetterman led the relief force that rode out.
His command totaled 79 soldiers and 2 civilian volunteers, making 81 men — exactly the number that, according to accounts preserved in oral tradition, the leaders of the operation had planned to kill.
Fetterman’s orders from Carrington were explicit: relieve the wood train and return.
He was specifically ordered not to cross Lodge Trail Ridge — a line of terrain features that marked the visible boundary of the fort’s immediate area — under any circumstances.
He crossed it.
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