Gen. Philip Sheridan thought his 1868-69 winter campaign against the Cheyenne would open the way for the safe settlement of western Kansas, but the Dog Soldier warrior society proved to be much more resilient than Sheridan had anticipated.

Major Carr inadvertently forced the Dog Soldiers to return to Kansas when his 5th Cavalry engaged them on the Kansas-Nebraska border on May 13, 1869, and again on May 16. Carr continued on to Fort McPherson, Neb.

A new season of blood opened on May 23 with a Dog Soldier attack on buffalo hunters and settlers south of the Nebraska border in Jewell and Republic counties.

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