 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1865 - 574 pages
...therefore having the honor of the government to that extent in his keep ing, he deliberately planned and executed• a foul and dastardly massacre which...placing them in their position of fancied security, he took advantage of their inapprehension and defenceless condition to gratify the worst passions that... | |
 | 1865 - 576 pages
...therefore having the honor of the government to that extent in his keep ing, he deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre which would...placing them in their position of fancied security, he took advantage of their inapprehension and defenceless condition to gratify the worst passions that... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War - 1865 - 570 pages
...therefore having the honor of the government to that extent in his keep ing, he deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre which would...placing them in their position of fancied security, he took advantage of their inapprehension and defenceless condition to gratify the worst passions that... | |
 | Helen Hunt Jackson - 1881 - 486 pages
...commission of such acts of cruelty and barbarity." Of Colonel Chivington, it says : "He deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre, which...veriest savage among those who were the victims of his cruelty.'1 And of Major Anthony : "The testimony of Major Anthony, who succeeded an officer disposed... | |
 | Helen Hunt Jackson - 1885 - 540 pages
...commission of such acts of cruelty and barbarity." Of Colonel Chivington, it says: " He deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre, which...among those who were the victims of his cruelty." And of Major Anthony : " The testimony of Major Anthony, who succeeded an officer disposed to treat... | |
 | Helen Hunt Jackson, Henry Benjamin Whipple, Julius Hawley Seelye - 1885 - 540 pages
...of cruelty and barbarity; " and of Colonel Chivington: " He deliberately planned and executed afoul and dastardly massacre, which would have disgraced...among those who were the victims of his cruelty." This was just fifteen years ago, no more. Shall we apply the same rule of judgment to the white men... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - 1917 - 744 pages
...Chivington himself, though he wore the uniform of a United States soldier, he had "deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre which would...among those who were the victims of his cruelty," and so on. He and such others as might be responsible for this crime against civilization should suffer... | |
 | Wilbur Fiske Stone - 1918 - 968 pages
...therefore having the honor of the Government to that extent in his keeping, he deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre which would...savage among those who were the victims of his cruelty. * * * The truth is that he surprised and murdered, in cold blood, the unsuspecting men, women and children... | |
 | Stan Hoig - 1961 - 244 pages
...therefore having the honor of the government to that extent in his keeping, he deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre which would...veriest savage among those who were the victims of his cruelty.11 At the same time of this investigation by the Committee on the Conduct of the War, another... | |
 | Gladys Bueler - 1981 - 124 pages
...matter. The committee's 118-page report condemned Colonel Chivington for having "deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre which would...among those who were the victims of his cruelty." The Sand Creek Massacre was hostly debated for years. Was it a massacre of Indians peaceably assembled?... | |
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... fitting terms to describe his conduct. Wearing the uniform of the United States, which should be the emblem of justice and humanity; holding the important position of commander of a military district, and therefore having the honor of the government... 
