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  2. Recognizing the historical significance of the battle sites, the Archeology Division of the Texas Historical Commission (THC) initiated the Red River War Battle Sites Project in 1998, aided by a grant from the National Park Service's American Battlefields Protection Program.

  3. The critical battle of the Red River War began as the sun rose on September 28, 1874. At least five Indian villages had sought protection in the hidden isolation of Palo Duro Canyon. Then Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie, in command of the Fourth Cavalry, charged into the canyon.

  4. www.tshaonline.org › handbook › entriesRed River War - TSHA

    Jan 27, 2021 · A war party headed west into the Panhandle of Texas. The second battle of Adobe Walls occurred between June 27 and July 1, 1874, when a war party of 700 Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe warriors attacked the buffalo hunters' camp at Adobe Walls on the Canadian River in what is now Hutchinson County. In the first skirmish of that conflict ...

  5. March 10–May 22, 1864. Venable, Richard M. 1839-1910 (Richard Morton) Shows the Red River valley in Arkansas and Louisiana, indicates the location of Camp Worth near Logansport, Louisiana, and the battle sites of April 8 and 9, 1864, between Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. Reference: LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 241.2.

  6. The Sites. THC archeologists investigated the following five battle sites in 1998 and 1999: The Adobe Walls site in present Hutchinson County; The Battle of Red River site in present Armstrong and Briscoe counties; The Buffalo Wallow site in present Hemphill County; The Battle of Lyman’s Wagon Train site also in present Hemphill County

  7. The Red River War of 1874. During the summer of 1874, the U. S. Army launched a campaign to remove the Comanche, Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indian tribes from the Southern Plains and enforce their relocation to reservations in Indian Territory. The actions of 1874 were unlike any prior attempts by the Army to pacify this area of the ...

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