Collection includes microfilm Mflm 173.
Microfilm reel also contains: Silas S. Soule papers (WH1690; Mflm172, RL1).
In part, photocopies. Repositories of originals unknown.
Contact Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado.
Frontier Methodist minister and army officer. Played a critical role in defeating confederate forces at the Civil War battle of Glorietta (1862). In November, 1864, led a regiment of the Colorado Volunteers to the Cheyenne's Sand Creek Reservation where troops killed between 100 and 200 Cheyenne (later known as the "The Sand Creek Massacre").
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