[3] On September 9, 1874, Captain Wyllys Lyman led a wagon train full of rations to Camp Supply in the Indian Territory for Col. Nelson A.

In the ensuing battle, Lyman and 95 troops formed a wagon corral and held off their adversaries, numbered at about 400, and a scout was dispatched to send word to Camp Supply.

[3][6] Satanta's reported participation in the conflict likely contributed to his reincarceration at the state penitentiary at Huntsville for violation of his parole.

Kelly, Thomas Kelly, George K. Kitchen, John W. Knox, William Koelpin, John Mitchell, William W. Morris, Frederick S. Neilon, Josiah Pennsyl, Peter Roth, Edward C. Sharpless, George W. Smith, and Zachariah T.

Miles' Sixth Cavalry when they were encircled at sunrise by a "large band of Kiowa and Comanche warriors" near the Washita River.

[8]: 257  All except Smith and Chapman had by noon made their way to a nearby bison wallow ten feet in diameter, where they used their hands and knives to throw up the sandy dirt all around the sides.

[8]: 258  Sitting upright, each man "fired deliberately, taking good aim, and were picking off an indian at almost every round.

Amos Chapman's and Billy Dixon's medals were revoked after a records review that was conducted from 1916 to 1917 found that they were ineligible because they were civilian scouts.