2021-02 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/6/2021
Two manuscript pages, General Orders, No. 127, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, October 6, 1867. VG. In part, Companies I and G 3rd US Cavalry will at 6 o'clock am to-morrow proceed in pursuit of about three hundred Navajo Indians who are reported to have left this reservation and are endeavoring to cross the Rio Grande on route to their homes. .... Should they ... manifest any hostile intentions ... they will be attacked, and if possible, every male adult killed and the women and children brought back. Named after former New Mexico Territory military governor Edwin Vose Sumner, U.S. Fort Sumner was a military fort charged with the internment of nearby Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863 to 1868. In 1866, the U.S. government was holding thousands of Native American Indians at Fort Sumner after they were subdued by Kit Carson.
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