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Fort C.F. Smith, near Ft. Smith, Montana, the Hayfield Fight site, between the Army at the fort and primarily Cheyenne Indians. The fight took place in early August, 1867, only a day away from the fight at the Wagon Box corral in Wyoming.
The single-shot Springfield/Allins were more than enough to keep the Indians at bay, because Powell had concentrated his men in a wagon corral under tight fire control. Also in August 1867, in a hayfield corral near Fort C.F. Smith, a small detachment of soldiers with the same weapons successfully fought those Indians with similar results--the Hayfield Fight.
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Mark W. Swarthout, Esq.
GGGrandson of Pvt. John W. Swarthout, Company E, 148th NYVI - Wounded at Cold Harbor.
GGGGrandson of Pvt. Henry Stephens, Company D, 137th NYVI - Wounded at Culp's Hill, Gettysburg.
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