What conflict was Charles Everett Lively involved in in Appalachia and Colorado?
Charles Everett Lively Charles Everett Lively (1887–1962) was a private detective affiliated with the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. He played an active role in the Coal Wars in Appalachia, and is chiefly remembered as one of the assassins of Police Chief Sid Hatfield.
Battle of Cedar Creek (1876) The Battle of Cedar Creek (also called Big Dry Creek or Big Dry River) occurred on October 21, 1876, in the Montana Territory between the United States Army and a force of Lakota Sioux Native Americans during the Great Sioux War of 1876. The battle broke out after talks between Colonel Nelson A. Miles and Chief Sitting Bull broke down, and ended with surrender of 400 Lakota lodges (with approximately 2,000 men, women, and children) to Miles six days later.