Another Federal Massacre of Indians . . .

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Will Grigg on the "Battle" of Sand Creek.

Sherman had often heard the grim but irresistible summons to slaughter. In a letter to his wife Ellen written during the War Between the States, Sherman noted the "the problem of war consists in the awful fact that the present class of men who rule the South must be killed outright rather than in the conquest of territory." He expressed nearly identical sentiments toward the Plains Indians in a letter to his brother John, a Republican Senator from Ohio, declaring that the Sioux and Cheyenne "must be exterminated, for they cannot and will not settle down, and our people will force us to it."

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