re: Sully statue to remain

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didnt he also like slaughter an indian tribe

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Not that I have ever read.

His father was RAISED by Indians (think Sam Houston), and he had many close friends who were Indians throughout his life.

Sully DID lead an expedition to rescue some folks who had been captured by the Comanche in the late 1850s, but half of that expedition was comprised of non-Comanche Indians fighting on his side and under his command. He got shot in the battle that concluded that expedition ... by a Comanche that had been his friend since childhood.

In that battle, the Comanche used a village of peaceful, non-Comanche Indians as "human shields," and Sully went out of his way to assure that those non-combatants were protected to the extent possible ... so the notion of him massacring an entire tribe strikes me as being VERY out of character.