Third Cavalry News Today

Where the dead get to tell their story By Jaclyn Schrock On Saturday, August 21, the Gilpin Historical Society held their annual Cemetery Crawl. Ticke

The Fort Chambers-Poor Farm site, which sits just northeast of Boulder, has a complicated past, particularly because of its ties to the Sand Creek massacre.

“The hills and creeks reminded the Irish of their native Ireland and named their town Erin.”

The city acknowledged that the marker at Fort Chambers — where Company D of the Third Colorado Cavalry had trained before participating in the Sand Creek Massacre on Nov. 29, 1864 — was removed because it falsely stated that the fort had been used in an

Boulder has removed an inaccurate historical marker that once stood in city-managed open space at the location of Fort Chambers.

True West Magazine LT HOWARD CUSHING There were many brave officers in the Frontier Army during the darkest days of the Apache campaigns in the late 1860s and early 1870s but none braver than Lieutenant Howard Cushing. He was a member of one of America’s most famous family of war heroes that included brothers, Milton Jr., Alonzo and John Cushing. Their father, Dr. Milton Cushing Sr. received his medical degree and settled in Zanesville, Ohio where he married his first wife Abigail. They had f...