Sand Creek: Battle or Massacre?-U.S.

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Primary Sources    
William Bent, Report, 1858-1859      
Black Kettle, Letter to Major Samuel Colley, August 20, 1864
Simeon Whiteley, Transcription from the Camp Weld Council, September 28, 1864          
“Battle of Sand Creek,” Denver Rocky Mountain News, December 17, 1864
Silas Soule, Letter to Edward Wynkoop, December 18, 1864  
Little Bear, Account of Sand Creek Fight, in Letter from George Bent to George Hyde, April 14, 1906     
S.J. Anthony, Letter to Brother, December 23, 1864    
Testimony of John M. Chivington to the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, April 26, 1865     
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