Army and the Southern Cheyenne, 1867-1869. įort Collins, CO: Citizen Printing Company, 2003. Anna was buried next to her son Ira at Delphos, Kansas. James divorced her, and moved to Fruita, Colorado.Īnna lived under a lifelong stigma and became a recluse because of what happened to her, she was committed into Home of the Feeble Minded in Topeka, Kansas, later in life where she died at the age of 57 on July 11, 1902. After I came back, the road seemed rough, and I often wished they had never found me." Eventually Anna with her three children left James, and went to live with her brother Daniel. Within two years the little boy took ill and died on April 30, 1871, just ten days after the birth of the Morgans' daughter, Mary.Īnna bore James two more sons, Claud and Glen, but their marriage was not a happy one Anna is quoted as saying, "There were many things that I not spoken of. She returned with James Morgan back to Delphos, and she gave birth to a half-Indian son, Ira Arthur. James, her husband, and her brother, Daniel, who had followed the Indians days and nights since her capture were there at her release. Courtenay, the colonel’s cook, took charge of the women by cleaning them up and gave them dresses to wear. The Cheyennes released Anna from her captivity near Sweetwater Creek, Texas, to Lieutenant Colonel Custer’s 7th US Cavalry, and the 19th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry on March 22, 1869. Morgan was of an aggressive nature and did not readily yield to their indignities, however in some instances the Cheyenne seemed to admire her courage and bravery.” June Namias noted, “When an ‘Indian chief’ proposed to Anna, she ‘married him, choosing the lesser of two evils.” Kansas historian, E.F. They were taken away farther down river, as soon as the fighting began. Custer attacked Chief Black Kettle’s village while Anna and Sarah were in Chief Whirlwind’s village downstream. On November 27, 1868, Lieutenant Colonel George A. Anna was traded to the Cheyenne for horses, and remained captive with Sarah. The Sioux, traveling back to their village, met a band of Cheyenne who already had a white captive, Sarah White. They tied her to her horse after brutally raping her. A raiding band of Sioux attacked, wounded James, and carried Anna away. On October 3, 1868, Anna Morgan was working in the field with her husband, James. June Namias, author of White Captives, described the young woman as “being tall, blonde hair, blue eyes, and a fair complexion.” She married a man named James Simeon Morgan on September 13, 1868. Brewster, who lived near Delphos, Kansas. She went to live with her brother Daniel A. Amanda “Anna” Belle Brewster was born December 10, 1844, at Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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