Indian Battlefield

The two girls found here were Julia and Addie German, seven and five. Their family, bound from Georgia for Colorado, was attacked on September 11, 1874, a day's journey from Fort Wallace, Kansas, by a Cheyenne war party under Medicine Water. The parents, a son and two daughters were killed. The younger two were traded to Grey Beard's band, and after the attack scouts including Billy Dixon found them in a pile of buffalo hides. Catherine and Sophia were freed in March 1875, and Congress set aside $10,000 from Cheyenne annuities for the four sisters.

What the plaque says

Indian Battlefield In this vicinity Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin, commanding two companies of United States troops, attacked a large band of Indians and rescued two white girl captives, November 8, 1874.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Phillips 66 Station, McLean — 16 mi
  A 1929 cottage-style Phillips 66 station on First Street in McLean, the town I-40 went around last and whose Route 66 business district stayed much as it was.
• Devil's Rope and Old Route 66 Museum — 16 mi
  Barbed wire and the Texas road in McLean's old brassiere factory: the fence that closed the open range, from the salesmen who sold it to the Panhandle ranches it divided.
• Donley County Courthouse — 19 mi
  Bulger and Rapp's red brick and white stone courthouse of 1891, the oldest in use in the Panhandle, given back its third floor and towers in a 2003 restoration.
• Saints' Roost Museum — 20 mi
  Clarendon's county museum in the hospital Cornelia Adair built for JA cowboys in 1910, named for the nickname cowhands gave a Methodist town with no saloons.

More markers nearby

• George B. McClellan — 0.3 mi
• Eldridge Post Office — 7.8 mi
• Dr. Charles L. Fields — 13 mi
• Groom — 13 mi