Kiowa County, Colorado
Mr. John S. Smith, sworn and examined. Washington, March 14, 1865.
Question Do you know whether or not Colonel Chivington knew the friendly character of these Indians before he made the attack upon them?
Answer It is my opinion that he did.
Question Were the women and children slaughtered indiscriminately, or only so far as they were with the warriors?
Answer Indiscriminately.
Question Were there any acts of barbarity perpetrated there that came under your own observation?
Answer Yes, sir; I saw the bodies of those lying there cut all to pieces, worse mutilated than any I ever saw before; the women cut all to pieces.
Question How cut?
Answer With knives; scalped; their brains knocked out; children two or three months old; all ages lying there, from sucking infants up to warriors.
Question Answer Question Answer
Did you see them when they were mutilated? Yes, sir.
By whom were they mutilated? By the United States troops.
“Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War”, Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress, 1865