9, 1874, and lasting for five days, Lyman’s Wagon Train Fight, also known as the “Battle on the Upper Washita,” became the longest engagement of the Red River War. During his pursuit of the ...

As the sun rose on a cold morning in 1868, hundreds of U.S. soldiers, led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, attacked Cheyenne families camped for the winter along the Washita River. Stories passed ...

announces the arrival of the steamer Groesbeck from Vicksburgh. The Washita River Expedition, consisting of the greater part of Gen. LOGAN's old brigade, a regiment of cavalry, and a battery of ...

Miles regularly sent out scouting parties from his base on the Washita to scourer ... hastened the end of the Red River War. A war, which started with the Second Battle of Adobe Walls on June ...