Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight

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index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations Absaraka (M. Carrington), 159–61, 167, 176, 186, 188, 191 Absaroka: geography of, 75–76; preEuropean conflicts around, 1–2 Adair, John J., 61, 63, 69, 84 Ambrose, Stephen, 196 American Horse, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 210–11n20 The American West (Brown), 196 Anderson, Richard C., 44 Appleman, Roy E., 195 Arapaho Indians, 3 An Army Boy of the Sixties (Ostrander), 194 Army Reorganization Act, 35–36 Arnold, William F., 71, 99, 127 Athearn, Robert, 10 Augur, C. C., 133, 138, 149, 152 Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands, 122, 195 Beckwourth, James, 75 Bingham, Horatio S., 39, 80, 154; death of, 90, 93; and the first counterattack against the Lakotas, 87–91 Bisbee, William H., 62, 63, 69, 71, 80, 125, 191; Bully 38 and, 81–82, 84; family of, 84–85; Fetterman’s report to, 91; promotion to captain, 91–92; testimony against Carrington , 140–41, 164–67 The Bloody Bozeman (Johnson), 196 Bogy, Lewis V., 131–32, 136, 145 Boone’s Lick (McMurtry), 197 Bowers, Sergeant, 90–91, 93, 154 Boyer, Mitch, 75 Bozeman, John, 5 Bozeman Trail, 22, 26; Carrington expedition toward, 27–28; Fetterman massacre and, 103–4; protection by Carrington’s troops, 34–35; soldiers killed along, 59 The Bozeman Trail (Brininstool), 193 Bradley, James, 59, 61, 79–80 Brady, Cyrus Townsend, 167–68, 177, 193, 196 Brashear, Mary Eliza, 45 Bridger, Jim, 27, 28, 56, 75, 85, 92, 122 Brininstool, E. A., 193, 194, 196 Brown, Alexander, 111, 113, 118, 168 Brown, Dee, 81, 93, 190, 195–96 Brown, Fred, 60, 61, 63, 69, 84; death of, 108, 190; and the Fetterman massacre, 96–97, 189–90; and the first counterattack against the Lakotas, 87–91; portrayals of, 189; reassignment to Fort Laramie, 92 Brown, John, 15 Buford, N. B., 147, 150 “Bully 38,” 81–82, 84, 85 Burke, John, 81–82 Burke, Thomas, 81–82 Camp Thomas, 19–20, 21–22 Canada, 8 Index 230 Carrington (Straight), 197 Carrington, Frances Courtney Grummond . See Grummond, Frances Courtney Carrington, Henry (son of Henry B. Carrington), 48 Carrington, Henry B., 7, 14, 183, 185; antislavery views of, 15–16; appointed colonel of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 17; appointed commander of the Mountain district, 13, 15, 23–24; at Camp Thomas, 19–20, 21–22; children of, 21, 46–47; communications to General Cooke, 29, 79, 87, 123–24, 128–29; concern over conflict with the Indians, 29–30; counterattacks commanded by, 87–91; defenders of, 190–92; defense of his actions before the Fetterman massacre, 99–100, 102, 147, 188–89, 190; design of Fort Phil Kearny by, 32, 33–34, 79; disapproval of Fetterman ’s plans, 102; education and personal life, 15; expedition toward the Bozeman Trail, 27–28; at Fort Kearney, 22, 23–24; at Fort McPherson, 127, 151, 152; information and evidence provided by, 134, 141–46, 164–67; leadership skills of, 70–74; leaves Fort Phil Kearny, 127; lobbying for position in the western frontier, 21–22; Margaret Carrington’s book on, 159–61, 186–87, 188, 191; marriage to Frances Grummond, 163; marriage to Margaret Sullivant, 45, 48; military ability of, 38–39; of- ficers accompanying, 38–39; officers reassigned away from, 38–39, 58–59, 92; as Ohio state adjutant general, 16–17; ordered to take offensive action, 85–86; political activism, 15–16; reassigned to Fort Casper, 122, 124; recovery of bodies from the Fetterman massacre by, 122; recruits Fetterman, 19; relationship with William Fetterman , 71–74, 98; report on the Fetterman massacre, 128, 129–30, 141, 143; reports submitted by, 95–96; requests for more soldiers, 34; and the Sanborn Commission, 147, 150–52; shoots himself in the thigh, 127; shortages reported by, 34–35; support for Ten Eyck, 175–78, 182–84; takes leave of absence, 152; William Dennison and, 158 Carrington, James (son of Henry B.), 48 Carrington, Joseph Sullivant (son of Henry B.), 47 Carrington, Margaret, 15, 19, 21, 22, 43, 76; book on the Fetterman massacre , 158, 186–87, 199; children of, 21, 46, 46–47; death of, 46–47; education of, 48; on Fetterman’s analysis of the Indians, 93, 191, 197; on the Fort Laramie Treaty, 26; on Fred Brown, 189; on George Grummond, 68; on Indian warfare, 56; marriage to Henry Carrington, 45, 48; on the recovery of bodies from the Fetterman massacre, 122; relationships with other officers’ wives, 42–44, 55–57; on report of...