First Battle of Adobe Walls

First Battle of Adobe Walls

The First Battle of Adobe Walls, was a battle between the United States Army and American Indians. The Kiowa, Comanche and Plains Apache (Kiowa Apache) tribes drove from the battlefield a United States Expeditionary Force that was reacting to attacks on white settlers moving into the Southwest. The battle, November 25, 1864, resulted in light casualties on both sides but was one of the largest engagements fought on the Great Plains.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First Battle of Adobe Walls
• Pages 461-471 - Sides, H., 2006, Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West: First Anchor Books, New York, 578p.