Brig. Gen. Lyman Walter Vare Kennon

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sources:

• Lyman Kennon, "The Case of the Chiricahuas," North American Review CLI (August 1890): 253.

Lieutenant Lyman Kennon, aide to Major General Crook, offered one of the most
realistic, insightful comments regarding the Apaches. "For the sins of these few," he
said, "a sentence of banishment was visited upon the whole tribe. They were far from
deserving it." The statement summarized what had actually occurred before 1886, and.
perhaps what would happen to the Chiricahuas over the course of the next twenty-seven
years.