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In the night between June 24th and 25th, 2020, a group of Black Lives Matter protestors tore down a statue depicting a Civil-War-era Colorado cavalryman located in front of the Colorado State Capitol. The statue was designed by Captain Jack Howland, a member of the 1st Colorado Cavalry regiment, and had been erected in July 1909.
The 3rd Colorado Cavalry Regiment was a Union Army unit formed in the mid-1860s when increased traffic on the United States emigrant trails and settler encroachment resulted in numerous attacks against them by the Cheyenne and Arapaho.
The Second Colorado Cavalry: A Civil War Regiment on the Great Plains (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press), 2020. Williams, Ellen. Three Years and a Half in the Army; or, History of the Second Colorados (New York: Fowler & Wells), 1885. Attribution. This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908).
COLORADO NOTES 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment: November 1, 1862 – November 18, 1865. 2nd Colorado Cavalry Regiment: October 1863 – September 23, 1865. 3rd Colorado Cavalry Regiment: September 31, 1864 – December 31, 1864. McLain's Independent Light Artillery Battery (Colorado) December 15, 1862 – August 31, 1865. 1st Colorado Infantry ...
The Sand Creek massacre (also known as the Chivington massacre, the battle of Sand Creek or the massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry [5] under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a ...
The 1st and 2nd Colorado Infantry Regiments, serving alongside the 2nd Regiment New Mexico Volunteer Infantry and Federal cavalry, won in actions against Texan units at the Battle of Glorieta Pass in February 1862 under the leadership of former Methodist minister Colonel John Chivington. In November 1862, the 1st Colorado Cavalry Regiment was ...
The Colorado Territory was formally created in 1861 shortly before the bombardment of Fort Sumter sparked the American Civil War.Although sentiments were somewhat divided in the early days of the war, Colorado was only marginally a pro-Union territory [1] (four statehood attempts were thwarted, largely by Confederate sympathizers in July 1862, February 1863, February 1864, and January 1866).
The 3rd Colorado Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment during the American Civil War from the state of Colorado. [1] In October 1863, the 3rd Colorado Infantry was consolidated with the 2nd Colorado Infantry Regiment and the subsequent formation was re-designated as the 2nd Colorado Cavalry Regiment. [1] [2]