Carrington's address includes details of the massacre of U.S. troops near Fort Phil. Kearney, where he was in command, on Dec. 21, 1867. Commonly referred to as the Fetterman Massacre, after the hot-headed officer who apparently disobeyed Carrington's orders and led his troopers into danger, the action is perhaps second only to the Custer fight as the greatest debacle of American soldiers in the Transmississippi West. With Carrington's signature rubberstamp on front free endpaper. Howes C174.