Red Cloud's Revenge

Red Cloud’s Revenge is a historical novel about the grim recollection


of detailed events and days/months before the showdown between the US


Cavalry & Sioux Indians on the northern plains of 1867. Fetterman, Brown


& Grummond rode out ahead of seventy-eight soldiers that day on December


21st 1866. In hopes of driving out some Sioux Indians and bring some


scalps home. Many soldiers’ guard was down when Fetterman’s entire force


disappeared over Trail Lodge Ridge. None of them were ever seen alive


again.





Seven months after the tragic bloodshed of the Fetterman Massacre by


a band of Lakota; Sargent Seamus Donegan was stationed near Fort Phil


Kearney recovering from the horror and bloodbath in which he participated.


Several Sergeants searching for him after the Fetterman Massacre directed


orders in expectation of Donegan. Traveling along the Bighorn River/Mountains


to Fort C.F. Smith, two thirds away from his destination Seamus along


with the small camp he stopped at was attacked by a band of Lakota Indians.


Narrowly escaping with his life, Donegan set off again to Fort C.F. Smith


and fatefully stumbled upon James W. Thompson’s path. Private Thompson


told Donegan that Chief Iron Bull requested his presence at sundown.


After his encounter with the Crow Indians and discussions of peace/alliance


with Chief Iron Bull, Thompson then took Seamus to Fort C.F. Smith by


horseback.





Several silent days following Donegan’s arrival, his long time friend


Captain Samuel Marr departed from Fort C.F. Smith. Heading to Fort Phil


Kearney in orders given to lead Privates to form additional relief teams.


Gunfire had erupted in a scuffle between Lakota forces and US Cavalry


troops. Soon both forts under siege as well as camps nestled along the

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