* John Chivington, a Colonel at the time of the U. S. Civil War who gained infamy for his attack on a peaceful settlement of Native Americans on the plains of Colorado, an attack which came to be known as the Sand Creek Massacre

Historian of Methodism Isaac Beardsley, a personal friend of Chivington, suggested that Chivington was " thrown out " due to his involvement with the armed forces, an association that would lead to Chivington's name to infamy.

In 1999 Benjamin Ridgley and Gail Ridgley organized a group of Northern Arapaho runners to run from Limon, Colorado to Ethete, Wyoming in memory of their ancestors who were forced to run for their lives after being attacked and pursued by Colonel Chivington and his battalion.

Territorial Governor John Evans eventually lost his job for his part in setting up the incident, and Colonel John Chivington, commander of the U. S. forces, was castigated by the United States Congress and the scandal followed him for the rest of his life.

Chivington was intended as a major watering stop for the railroad ( a 60-room, $ 10, 000 " crown jewel " hotel was initially built there ), but the water was too alkaline to use and the trains instead stopped in Kansas to tank up.

* Chivington Drive, the council took the decision to rename the city street following two decades of protests that it honored Colonel John Chivington who was responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

His outspoken views in favor of abolitionism put him in danger, and upon the advice of " Congressman Craig and other friends " Chivington was persuaded to leave the Kansas Territory for the Nebraska Territory.

This appointment would ultimately disagree with Chivington, and he would serve it for one year.

Chivington got into position above the Pass, but waited in vain for either Slough or Sibley to arrive.

Chivington earned high praise for his decisive stroke at Johnson's Ranch, even though his discovery of the Confederate supply train was accidental.

Chivington was unusual in becoming a ( minor ) military hero of the Civil War for an incident in which there were no casualties.

Chivington was condemned for his part in the massacre, but he had already resigned from the Army.

Protesters had objected to Chivington being honored for the Sand Creek Massacre.

He later testified against Chivington for the atrocities committed by him and his troops, and was assassinated on a street in Denver soon afterward by an unknown assailant who shot him ..

The shooting was believed to have been an act of premeditated murder by Chivington loyalists as revenge for his testifying.

Soule's testimony against Chivington and about the massacre at Sand Creek led, in part, the United States Congress to refuse the Army's request for thousands of men for a general war against the Native Americans of the Plains States.

* Chivington Drive, a street in Longmont, Colorado, which was named for Colonel John Chivington, and therefore became the center of controversy in the news and at Longmont City Council meetings

* Chivington, Colorado, a ghost town in Kiowa County, named for Colonel John Chivington

Governor Evans decorated Chivington and his men for their " valor in subduing the savages " and fought off rumors of an unprovoked massacre.

Gilbert played tennis for Foothill College, a junior college in Los Altos Hills, California, from 1980 – 82, where he was coached by Tom Chivington.

The Sand Creek Massacre ( also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians ) was an atrocity in the Indian Wars of the United States that occurred on November 29, 1864, when a 700-man force of Colorado Territory militia attacked and destroyed a village of friendly Cheyenne and Arapaho encamped in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70 – 163 Indians, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.

On March 28, Slough sent Chivington and his men on a circling movement, with orders to hit Sibley in the flank once Slough's main force had engaged his front at Glorieta Pass.

Chivington returned to Slough's main force to find it rapidly falling back.

The Coloradans, led by General Edward Canby and John M. Chivington, defeated Sibley's force at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, thwarting the Confederate strategy.

Commanded by major John M. Chivington, a former Methodist Minister, who had also commanded the advance Union force which tangled with and defeated an advance Confederate unit on March 27 at Apache Canyon, this Union detachment effectively ended the threat posed by the Confederate invaders by destroying their supplies and ammunition stores.

* 1864 – American Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre – Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

* November 29 – American Indian Wars – Sand Creek Massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado ( where they had been given permission to camp ).

In November 1864, a small village of Cheyenne and Arapaho became victims of the Sand Creek massacre, an attack by the Colorado militia, led by Colonel John Chivington.

Efforts to make a wider peace continued, but in the spring of 1864, John Evans, governor of Colorado Territory, and John Chivington, commander of the Colorado Volunteers, a citizens militia, began a series of attacks on Indians camping or hunting on the plains.

Following the battle, the First Regiment of Colorado Volunteers returned to Colorado Territory and were mounted as a home guard under the command of Colonel John Chivington.

Chivington and Colorado territorial governor John Evans adopted a hard line against Indians, whom white settlers accused of stealing livestock.

Setting out from Fort Lyon, Chivington and his 700 troops of the First Colorado Cavalry, Third Colorado Cavalry and a company of First New Mexico Volunteers marched to Black Kettle's campsite.

In 1864, Major John Chivington, a Colorado militia officer, attacked a peaceful village of Arapahos and Southern Cheyenne at Sand Creek in Colorado, killing over 150 Indians.

They were commanded by John Chivington and George L. Shoup who followed the lead of John Evans, territorial governor of Colorado.

John Milton Chivington ( January 27, 1821 – October 4, 1894 ) was a colonel in the United States Army who served in the American Indian Wars during the Colorado War and the New Mexico Campaigns of the American Civil War.

" On May 8, 1860, Chivington moved with his family to the Colorado Territory, settling in Denver.

When the Civil War broke out, Colorado Territory governor William Gilpin offered him a commission as a chaplain, but Chivington refused it, saying he wanted to fight.

In November, setting out from Fort Lyon, Colonel Chivington and his 800 troops of the First Colorado Cavalry, Third Colorado Cavalry and a company of First New Mexico Volunteers marched nearly to the reservation.

Although never punished, Chivington was forced to resign from the Colorado Militia.

The movie provided the first motion picture account of the Sand Creek massacre, one of the most infamous incidents in the history of the American frontier, in which Colorado Territory militia under Colonel John M. Chivington massacred a defenseless village of Cheyenne and Arapaho on the Colorado Eastern Plains.

Chivington and his men knew of the unarmed band of Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Black Kettle, seeking peace talks, camped along Sand Creek in the east central part of the Territory.

On September 28, 1864, Black Kettle holds council with Colorado Territory Governor John Evans, Colonel Chivington and Major Wynkoop ( Arron Shiver ), to ensure peace.

Command of this unit was given Colonel John Chivington, who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Glorietta Pass in the New Mexico Territory early in 1862, against Confederate forces.