Kidder Massacre
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The Kidder Massacre of 29 June 1867 refers to the killing of a Lyman Kidder along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men. They were ordered to take dispatches from General William Sherman to General George A. Custer, who was camped on the Republican River in Nebraska, but failed to arrive.
On 12 July, Custer's scout, Wilner Comastock, found the mutilated bodies of the Kidder party. It was later proposed that the men were killed by a war party of Cheyenne and Sioux archers.
The term "massacre" was applied loosely and with bias at the time and by modern standards this would not be called a massacre since the parties involved were in a state of conflict and the dead were armed combatants.
