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That he and other officers also remonstrated with Major Anthony - who had then joined Colonel Chivington's command - against attacking these Indians, and that the Major said in reply that he only pretended friendship with them until a sufficient force could be assembled to kill them all. That Col. Chivington said he "was in, for killing all Indians, and d__n any man who had sympathy for them." Lt. Cramer of 1st Col. Vols., testified that he also remonstrated with Col. Chivington before the attack, and told him that not only Maj. Wynkoop, but all his officers were bound in honor to redeem the pledge made to these Indians, by protecting them. Colonel Chivington replied that he "thought it right and honorable to use any means under God's Heavens to kill Indians, who themselves killed women & children, d__n any man that sympathised with them, that in his opinion both Maj. Wynkoop and witness had better quit the service." The Indians, by advise of Major Anthony, had encamped on Sandy