The Fetterman Massacre, also known as the Fetterman Fight, the Battle of the Hundred Slain, and the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, was a battle on December 21, 1866 between Indians from the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and soldiers of the United States Army during Red Cloud’s War. This battle was at the time the worst military disaster to have ever been suffered by the by the U.S. on the Great Plains and is known as a massacre because all 81 men, under the control of Captain William J. Fetterman, were slain by the Indians. Only the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, commonly referred to as Custer’s Last Stand, stands as a worse defeat for the U.S. Army and a greater victory for the Plains Indians.…