The Cherry Valley Massacre (1778)- This massacre took place in Cherry Valley and what is now Otsego County, which is east of Cooperstown NY. This battle was fought between the colonels men and the Indians. On November 11th 1778, a party of Tories, Indians, and regulars, commanded by Colonel Butler, decided to make a decent on the fort in Cherry Valley. As the colonel journeyed towards the fort in Cherry Valley he split his men into two groups to scout for two different paths that the enemy could have taken to attack the colonel and his men. On Wednesday the 11th, it was raining very hard as the colonel and his men took a path that was currently unknown to Colonel Butler's enemy, the colonel soon lodged at the nearby home of Mr Wells. The next morning a man known as Mr Hamlin came by and discovered two Indians who shot him in the arm. Hamlin immediately rode to Mr Wells and acquainted the colonel. The Indians had surrounded the house and with much persistence the colonel and his men made it to the fort at Cherry Valley.
When they reached the fort the colonel was almost immediately shot, but did not suffer any deadly wounds. The fighting between the Indians and Colonel Butlers men went on for almost three and a half hours. The men, women, and children, at Cherry Valley were brutally murdered and scalped by the Indians who had won the fight. Within the days after the massacre the Indians raided the destroyed fort for supplies such as horses, cattle, and sheep. The number of fatalities is unknown, but is estimated to be over 100. Not only was there a vast amount of fatalities but there was also a considerable amount of people captured within the fight. The Cherry Valley Massacre was a terrible event that could have been prevented with better leadership and more logical reasoning.
When they reached the fort the colonel was almost immediately shot, but did not suffer any deadly wounds. The fighting between the Indians and Colonel Butlers men went on for almost three and a half hours. The men, women, and children, at Cherry Valley were brutally murdered and scalped by the Indians who had won the fight. Within the days after the massacre the Indians raided the destroyed fort for supplies such as horses, cattle, and sheep. The number of fatalities is unknown, but is estimated to be over 100. Not only was there a vast amount of fatalities but there was also a considerable amount of people captured within the fight. The Cherry Valley Massacre was a terrible event that could have been prevented with better leadership and more logical reasoning.