Post by conz on Dec 12, 2007 14:03:35 GMT -6
This episode may or may not exist. It is mainly based on a couple body locations found and select Native testimony, such as:
The soldiers followed the ridge down to the present cemetery site. Then this bunch of forty or fifty Indians came out by the monument and started shooting down at them again. But they were moving on down toward the river, across from the Cheyenne camp. Some of the warriors there had come across, and they began firing at the soldiers from the brush in the river bottom. This made the soldiers turn north, but they went back in the direction they had come from, and stopped when they got to the cemetery site. And they waited there a long time-twenty minutes or more…“Hanging Wolf was one of the warriors who crossed the river and shot from the brush when Custer came down to the bottom. He said they hit one horse down there, and it bucked off a soldier, but the rest took him along when they retreated north. [Note: White Cow Bull says that when Custer's men tried to ford the river he shot a man in buckskin on a sorrel horse with white socks -- only Custer fit that description -- and that the man fell off his horse into the river. Non-combatant Mark Kellogg, the New York Herald correspondent, was also killed here, suggesting that the situation deteriorated very rapidly for Custer's men at the river.] More Cheyennes and Sioux kept crossing all the time as the soldiers moved back up toward the top.-- John Stands in Timber
Clair
The soldiers followed the ridge down to the present cemetery site. Then this bunch of forty or fifty Indians came out by the monument and started shooting down at them again. But they were moving on down toward the river, across from the Cheyenne camp. Some of the warriors there had come across, and they began firing at the soldiers from the brush in the river bottom. This made the soldiers turn north, but they went back in the direction they had come from, and stopped when they got to the cemetery site. And they waited there a long time-twenty minutes or more…“Hanging Wolf was one of the warriors who crossed the river and shot from the brush when Custer came down to the bottom. He said they hit one horse down there, and it bucked off a soldier, but the rest took him along when they retreated north. [Note: White Cow Bull says that when Custer's men tried to ford the river he shot a man in buckskin on a sorrel horse with white socks -- only Custer fit that description -- and that the man fell off his horse into the river. Non-combatant Mark Kellogg, the New York Herald correspondent, was also killed here, suggesting that the situation deteriorated very rapidly for Custer's men at the river.] More Cheyennes and Sioux kept crossing all the time as the soldiers moved back up toward the top.-- John Stands in Timber
Clair