The Fetterman Fight was a battle fought between the US Army and a much larger Native American warband in Wyoming on 21 December 1866 amid Red Cloud's War. In response to several Indian attacks on the incomplete Fort Phil Kearny, General Philip St. George Cooke ordered the cautious Colonel Henry B. Carrington to take the offensive against the Sioux, and Carrington dispatched Captain William J. Fetterman to escort a wagon train to deliver timber and firewood to Fort Kearny, while ordering him not to pursue the Sioux over the Lodge Trail Ridge. However, a force of 50 Indians attacked Fort Kearny before retreating and prompting Fetterman to give chase, against orders. His command soon found itself ambushed by 1,000 Native warriors, and, within twenty minutes, all 81 of his men - including himself - were killed, stripped naked, and their bodies mutilated. Only around 13 Natives were killed in the ambush. Carrington was blamed for the defeat, as Fetterman had previously argued with Carrington over his cautious approach to dealing with Native raiders, and Ulysses S. Grant accused Carrington of deliberately sending Fetterman to his death.