Battle of Fort Kearny

Once again the Americans probably set the Iron Confederations warriors up to use their machine guns against them. On August 2, 1867 anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 warriors from the Iron Confederation caught wind to some 31 American soldiers leaving the protection of Fort Kearny, who commenced to form their wagons into an deliberate circle shape, in order to defend themselves, and use their machine guns on the much larger Indian military force. Historians claim that the battle lasted some five hours but they may have been deliberately misleading. It probably took the 31 American soldiers only a few short minutes to kill and wound close to 300 Anishinabe-Assiniboine-Cree warriors. American casualties were only 7 with five being killed. After this battle ended and the survivors of the battle met with the survivors of the Haystack battle, they knew that they were in deep trouble. However, ogima Little Shell kept them under control and they continued to resist American efforts to force them to surrender, because the Americans definitely sent their representatives to negotiate with ogima Little Shell after the horrible battles.