Cheyennes lead by Chief Medicine Water attacked John German and his family, which had camped on the stagecoach route on the Smoke Hill River in Kansas.
German, his wife Liddia, son Stephen, and daughters Rebecca Jane and Joanna Cleveland were killed. Daughters Catherine Elizabeth, 17 years of age, Sophia Louisa, 12 years of age, Julia Arminda, 7 years of age, and Nancy Addie, 5 years of age were taken captive.
Julia and Nancy were traded to Grey Beard's band and liberated on November 8, 1874 in an Army raid. Catherine and Sophia were released in March 1874 when Chief Stone Calf and most of the Southern Cheyenne surrendered at Fort Leavenworth, in Kansas.
All four girls married eventually and remained in Kansas.
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Wednesday, September 9, 1874. The start of the Battle of Upper Washita.
Labels: 1870s, 1874, Army, Battle of the Upper Washita River, Comanche, Ft. Leavenworth Kansas, Ireland, Kansas, Kiowa Tribe, Native Americans, Red River War, Texas, The Wild Geese
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