On the banks of Sand Creek, southeastern Colorado Territory, soon after dawn on November 29, 1864, Colonel John M. Chivington, a one-time Methodist minister, ordered soldiers from two Colorado regiments of the Union Army to attack a sizeable encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho people. The native chiefs, notably Black Kettle and Left Hand, had already entered into negotiation with Territorial authorities and had been assured of their safety. Over 150 Native Americans, predominantly women, children and the elderly, were slaughtered. Chivington's men did not chase those Indians who managed to flee the scene, but took no prisoners and destroyed any remaining lodges and possessions of the dead and departed. They mutilated the bodies of the fallen. Later, looters took away disinterred skulls. Three details not in Ari Kelman's exhaustive study [A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the memory of Sand Creek, Harvard University Press, 2013]: some of the soldiers decorated their hats with the genitalia of their victims, both male and female, for their victorious return to Denver; Chivington himself later liked to appear on stage at the Denver Opera House with his personal collection of numerous scalps taken at Sand Creek; and a member of his command kept the scrotum of a murdered Indian as a "candy container", for decades showing it off to fellow elected members of the Colorado legislature.