The Colorado History Gazette Volume 25 Denver City, April 23, 1865 SILAS SOULE—A FORGOTTEN HERO DOY HAD BEEN CAPTURED BY A GROUP OF PRO-SLAVERY MISSOURI RUFFIANS WHILE TRYING TO ESCORT FORMER TODAY, ONE OF DENVER CITY’S GREAT HEROES WAS SLAVES AND TWO FREEMEN TO THE SAFETY OF THE NEBRASKA MURDERED ON THE STREETS OF DENVER CITY. JUST FIVE TERRITORY. AFTER DR. DOY’S ESCAPE, A PHOTOGRAPH WAS MONTH AGO, MR. SOULE AND LIEUTENANT JOSEPH CRAMER TAKEN OF THE GROUP, WITH SILAS SOULE STANDING PROUDLY, REFUSED TO FOLLOW COL. JOHN CHIVINGTON’S ORDERS AND THE SECOND MAN ON THE RIGHT. FIRE ON BLACK KETTLE AND AN ENCAMPMENT OF FRIENDLY AFTER SEVERAL ADVENTUROUS YEARS FIGHTING SLAVERY WITH CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO AT THE LIKES OF JOHN BROWN AND PUBLISHER WILLIAM THAYER, SAND CREEK. IT IS FEARED HIS SILAS HEADED WEST TO FIND HIS FORTUNE IN THE GOLD MINES DEATH IS IN RETALIATION OF OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. MINING, AS IT TURNED OUT, WAS HIS ACTIONS AT THAT NOT IN HIS BLOOD, BUT WITH THE CIVIL WAR RAGING IN THE MASSACRE. STATES, SILAS BECAME A LIEUTENANT IN THE COLORADO FIRST SILAS STILLMAN SOULE, INFANTRY. DURING THE BATTLE OF GLORIETTA PASS, THE SO- DESCRIBED AS AN CALLED “GETTYSBURG OF THE WEST,” SILAS WROTE ABOUT ADVENTUROUS AND FUN- “FIGHTING HAND TO HAND OVER ROCKS, STUMPS, AND LOVING MAN, WAS BORN IN TREES.” AFTERWARDS, HE WAS PROMOTED TO BE A CAPTAIN. BATH, MAINE ON JULY 26, KNOWN AS A PRANKSTER AND PRACTICAL JOKER, SILAS ONCE 1838. RAISED IN A WROTE A MILITARY RECRUITING POSTER THAT BEGAN: OLD ABOLITIONIST FAMILY, SILAS TOP! ARE YOU ON IT? COME ON IN OUT OF THE DRAFT! AND HIS FAMILY JOINED THE NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT AID ENLIST IN THE CAVALRY! CHARGE AROUND ON A BRAVE HORSE SOCIETY AND MOVED TO LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TO JOIN THE AND SHOW THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE NO SARDINE! THE FIRST FIGHT TO KEEP KANSAS A UNION STATE. HE BECAME A KANSAS CAVALRY OF COLORADO, ALIAS PET LAMBS…CANNOT BE BEAT JAYWALKER, A FREE-STATER, FIGHTING PRO-SLAVERY FORCES IN THIS OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY. THEY HAVE BEEN TRIED AND AND BECOMING ACTIVE IN THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. FILLED THE BILL TO A T. WHY WASTE YOUR SWEETNESS ON … AT THE AGE OF TWENTY, SILAS BECAME ONE OF THE LESS THAN 80 DAYS FOLLOWING HIS TESTIMONY TO THE “IMMORTAL TEN,” A GROUP OF ABOLITIONISTS WHO BROKE MILITARY INQUIRY OF THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE, SILAS WAS INTO THE SHOT AND KILLED. HIS MURDERERS ARE KNOWN, BUT THEY SAINT HAVE NOT BEEN BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. JOSEPH JAIL IN MISSOURI 1. Silas Soule: A Short, Eventful Life of Moral AND FREED Courage, Tom Bensing, 2012. DR. DOY, 2. Photos from Denver Public Library. TAKING HIM 3. The Life of Silas Soule, Sand Creek Massacre BACK TO Historic site, LAWRENCE, https://www.nps.gov/sand/learn/historyculture KANSAS. DR. /the-life-of-silas-soule.htm . .