But Satanta could not bring himself to be quiet. Leaders Satank and Satanta had come back to the reservation, and had they kept quiet, no one would have ever found out officially who had committed the Warren Wagon Train Raid. The Army did not catch the war party, the war party caught themselves. Bragging leads to chains and a trial for Satanta and Big Tree, Satank opts for death Satank or "Sitting Bear", 1870. Mackenzie and the 4th Cavalry to pursue the war party and bring back those responsible for the attack. The General, realizing that he had escaped death by fate, ordered Colonel Ranald S. The survivors rushed on to Fort Richardson, where they encountered General Sherman. Seven teamsters were killed, including one who was burned alive. Despite efforts to defend themselves, the Warren Train was quickly overrun. The warriors attacked the wagon train less than an hour after Sherman had left them. Main articles: Warren Wagon Train Raid, Satanta (White Bear), Satank, and Texas-Indian Wars This dream doomed the Warren train, but saved Sherman, who would almost certainly have been killed had the large war party attacked his escort. The Kiowas and Comanches, already waiting in ambush, followed the advice of their medicine man and waited for the more profitable prey of civilians he had seen in his dreams instead of attacking the small army group. General Sherman, general-in-chief of the United States Army, was on a three-week inspection tour of federal military posts on the Texas frontier. That morning, the Warren Train encountered General William Tecumseh Sherman with an escort of a dozen troopers. So on May 18, Warren and his men were traveling down the Jacksboro-Belknap road heading towards Salt Creek Crossing, on Salt Creek Prairie, and were a few miles from Fort Richardson. Wagon Master Henry Warren had contracted to haul supplies to Army forts in the west of Texas, including Forts Richardson, Griffin, and Concho. The Warren Wagon Train Raid was one such effort. But the warriors still made bloody efforts to stave off confinement. The time of the free Native American Plains Tribes had come and gone. Never was the frontier more tense than in 1871 because there was a prodigious look out for Indians smoking peyote. The warriors of those three tribes, along with the Cheyenne, crossed the Red River and made bloody raids into the sparsely settled northwestern counties of Texas, down into Mexico. Fort Richardson, near Jacksboro, Texas, was built to stop the Kiowa, Comanche, and Kiowa-Apache warriors, from violating their confinement to the reservation lands in Oklahoma, which they did nearly every "Comanche moon" (as the settlers fearfully called the period of the full moon).
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