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Cavalry column discovers German sisters in Cheyenne camp
On this day in 1874, a cavalry column under Lt. Frank D. Baldwin charged a Cheyenne encampment north of McClellan Creek, about ten miles south of the site of present-day Pampa. The surprised Indians abandoned the village and left most of their property intact. Riding through the deserted camp, Billy Dixon and other army scouts noticed movement in a pile of buffalo hides; they were astonished to find two white captives, Julia and Addie German, both emaciated and near starvation. They and their two older sisters, Catherine and Sophia, had been captured when their family was attacked on September 10, 1874. Catherine and Sophia were subsequently rescued from another band of Cheyennes, and the four German sisters were reunited at Fort Leavenworth.
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- GERMAN SISTERS
- MCCLELLAN CREEK
- BALDWIN, FRANCIS LEONARD DWIGHT
- DIXON, WILLIAM
- INDIAN CAPTIVES
- CHEYENNE INDIANS
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