Silas Soule
Union Army officer
Died when: 26 years 271 days (320 months)Star Sign: Leo
Silas Stillman Soule (/'so?l/ [sole]) (July 26, 1838 – April 23, 1865) was an American abolitionist, Kansas Territory Jayhawker, whose family aligned themselves with John Brown and Walt Whitman.
Later, during the American Civil War, he joined the Colorado volunteers, rising to the rank of captain in the Union Army.
Silas Soule was in command of Company D, 1st Colorado Cavalry, which was present at Sand Creek on November 29, 1864, when he refused an order to join the Sand Creek massacre.
During the subsequent inquiry, Soule testified against the massacre's commanding officer, John Chivington, and soon after, he was murdered in Denver.
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