Indian+massacre-dc




 * On 29 January 1863, Colonel** **Patrick Edward Connor** **and about 200 California Volunteers attacked a Northwestern** **Shoshoni** **winter village located at the confluence of Beaver Creek and** **Bear River****, twelve miles west and north of the village of Franklin in Cache Valley and just a short distance north of the present Utah-Idaho boundary line. Approximately 250 Shoshoni were slain, including 90 women and children. After the slaughter ended, some of the undisciplined soldiers went through the Indian village raping women and using axes to bash in the heads of women and children who were already dying of wounds.**