Battle of Summit Springs

Battle of Summit Springs
Part of the American Indian Wars

Summit Springs battlefield showing three of the memorials
DateJuly 11, 1869
Location
Washington County, Colorado
40°25′58″N 103°8′21″W / 40.43278°N 103.13917°W / 40.43278; -103.13917
Result United States victory
Belligerents
 United States Arapaho
Cheyenne
Sioux
Commanders and leaders
Eugene A. Carr Tall Bull †
Strength
244 soldiers
50 scouts		 ~450 men, women and children
Casualties and losses
1 wounded ~35 killed
17 captured
Civilian Casualties 1 killed 1 wounded
Summit Springs Battlefield
Location within Colorado

The Battle of Summit Springs, on July 11, 1869, was an armed conflict between elements of the United States Army under the command of Colonel Eugene A. Carr and a group of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers led by Tall Bull, who was killed during the engagement. The US forces were assigned to retaliate for a series of raids in north-central Kansas by Chief Tall Bull's Dog Soldiers band of the Cheyenne. The battlefield is located south of today's Sterling, Colorado, in Washington County near the Logan/Washington county line.

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