Post by herosrest on Feb 6, 2013 17:01:52 GMT -6
Taking down Harlequin Ducks. with footnotes
What looks straight is most probably trending left or right. More repeatedly, left.
What may be straight is quite prone to be oblique quartering left or right.
Trap Shooting Secrets, James Russell,1997, p38. books.google.co.uk/books?id=aY7FZ9qqClkC&printsec=frontcover&output=html_text
Authored by the United States Board on Breech-loading Small-arms; United States Army Ordnance Dept:
Report of the Board of officers appointed in pursuance of the act of Congress approved June 6, 1872, for the purpose of selecting a breech-system for the muskets and carbines of the military service, together with their report upon the subject of trowel-bayonets; (1873)
archive.org/stream/reportofboardof00unit#page/22/mode/2up
Discussion of Plains Precision Targeting, 1876. www.n-ssa.org/vbforum/showthread.php/6287-Cheyanne-Indian-and-His-Spencer-Carbine
The class of 1857 ~ penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/1779*.html
Courtesy of Ken Hammer is an interview with Curley, September 30, 1913, which Thomas Le Forge, interpreted.
Mitch and I went on and joined Custer on Medicine Tail Coulee as he was advancing toward the village. He did not halt after we joined him.
He had all the bugles blowing for some time, the purpose of which I did not understand [perhaps he was having them play Garry OwenWMC].
I had seen Reno defeated in the bottom and discussed it with Mitch. I saw Mitch say something to General Custer when we met him and presumed that he must have informed him about Reno's situation.
On the battlefield, near Calhoun marker, I saw Mitch talking with the general. Mitch said that Custer told him the command would very likely all be wiped out and he (Custer) wanted the scouts to get out if they could.
I was riding my own horse. I found a dead Sioux and exchanged my Winchester for his Sharps rifle and belt of cartridges.2 On my saddle I had a coat made of a blanket with holes cut out for arms, and a hood over my head. In this fashion I rode out.
I first went over to Lookout Point and remained at the summit, on back side, until sundown. From there I could see soldiers gathered
0. Camp MSS, field notes, unclassified envelope 71, Lilly Library.
2. There is a variance in Curley's statements about the rifle he obtained from the Sioux Indian. In the 1908, 1909, and 1910 interviews it was a Winchester. It may be an error of interpretation here that the rifle was a Sharps. (Quack.... omg, tears hair out, Pull!)
Curley was several times during his life, photographed with his trusty..... Sharp Winchester. The real problem is when Clint Eastwood met Curley?
From Camp's work with Curley, has evolved the following trivial significant.
Frederick Whittaker and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed. by $imples
Part IV Much that is of those following the military camp at Little Big Horn is divisive in petty favoritism of particular members of 7th Cavalry. It is particularism extreme by particularates being particularist and it can be fun to admire, in the way 80 handicaps.
Maj. Reno retired from battle, without orders at around 2pm, 25th June 1876 and did so when he probably should have charged. An interesting aside to the matter eminated from interpreter F.F. Gerard who heard trumpet calls he did not understand, at the time of Maj. Reno's, 'That was a charge, sir!', from the valley into the river.
Interview with Curley, September 30, 1913, Thomas Le Forge, Interpreter
The four Crows remained with Custer until we got to ridge south of Medicine Tail coulee. Here Hairy Moccasin, White Man Runs Him, and Goes Ahead left us, and Mitch and I went on. We joined Custer on Medicine Tail Coulee as he was advancing toward the village. He did not halt after we joined him. He had all the bugles blowing for some time, the purpose of which I did not understand [perhaps he was having them play Garry OwenWMC].
Now Capt. Benteen, i'll call him Fred, has been lambasted in five quarters as dilatory and absent when needed. This is valid criticism of an experienced and obviously able officer. What was he up to, eh? during that tiresome extended march to the left. It doesn't really matter although it can be said in absolute certainty that he can be placed in what is today named Long Otter Creek. This is by his own admission shortly after the battle and to doubt his words is obviously to doubt the man.
It must be obvious to soldier or military student that George Custer intended to concentrate his strength at the village. That quite simply goes without saying, it is given fact FROM which to develop theory of how what happened, happened. In this respect, l will point out Lt. Robert Patterson Hughes who as a member of Gen. Terry's staff, in his letter of 30th June, entirely failed to grasp that team play.
Hughes spent the rest of his life as nemesis, criticising Custer for the mistake Terry made of dividing his force. It was unfortunate, all around, that Custer was able to lead 7th Cavalry, where with Bemteen to defer to, who knows how Reno's luck would have played. Would Reno have continued along the Rosebud to the headwaters of the Tongue, feeling constantly to the left whilsy knowing that Sitting Bull was to his right?
Fred knew were his battalion was to go, his written orders told him. He showed his orders to Alfred Terry, explained why he didn't follow his orders and Terry was obviously impressed, or at least happy that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. Reno was no longer in the valley, when Fred arrived to join and support him there, as you would expect to occur. Go quickly to the big village, Fred. ps please.
I shall now indulge in the twin tepees, some even allocate three of them and a small bunch of escapees running ahead of the cavalry, who hid out in a clump of trees as cavalry rode by them. Which tepee was set alight, that at the White Buttes or the one less than a mile from Ford A. Perhaps both were torched...... but far more interesting is why. Why broadcast your presence when entirely consumed with the risk of Godfrey's delightful scatyeration.
There is one logical reason, only. This was a message, a smoke signal to Terry and it was seen and understood by Terry and, l believe, Bradley and his scouts in Tullock Creek. Perhaps Benteen saw it also, blush.
Flying By saw soldiers attack the Hunkpapa tepees. All Indians that had ponies went to help them fight Reno, some were dismounted. His fight lasted only short time when his horse was shot. Soldiers went through timber and retreated to river. He went back to village for another horse. and Hunkpapa and Minneconjou squaws were taking down tepees.
As soon as Reno retreated, more soldiers were in sight from the village but farther down stream. The soldiers had four or five flags. Custer acted as though would cross and attack village. When he got to Custer, Indians had been fighting quite awhile.
As He Dog charged towards Reno, the soldiers left the timber in two bunches as fast as they could ride up the river. Indian scouts moved out also. He saw Benteen coming and quit pursuing Reno.
Tall Bull told W.M. Camp that Cheyennes call Little Bighorn the Goat River. Their village was at the north end of camp just as I have it. Here is the battle's fundemental problem for all students because the camp moved down steam after the Custer fight. Thus, a map relating to the village as it lay at 2pm, and one desribing it extending further downstream on that day, can both be correct to Tall Bull.
There were 3,000 people in Cheyenne village. Head chiefs Little Bighorn: Two Moons, White Bull, and Lame White Man, who was killed. Only part of Cheyennes and Sioux got into Reno fight in bottoms. Cheyennes did not learn soldiers coming until Reno attacked. The Sioux must have known of approach of soldiers but Cheyennes did not.
After returning from Reno, women going over east to get on high ground to overlook Reno fight discovered Custer coming. Custer got onto flat near Ford B within easy gunshot of village, and Indians drove him back.
Red Star's Additional Arikara Narrative interview went like this,
1 ~ When Custer stood at the bank where Hodgson's stone stands. Curly and Black Fox (Arikara) were there with him (Goes Ahead confirms this).
2 ~ Pretty Face reported that after he had joined the Arikara scouts he saw an Arikara with a white cloth about his head. Black Fox was the only Arikara with this on.
3 ~ When Black Fox reached the mouth of the Rosebud he met the older scouts already there. He said he and Curly got together near Reno ford. They went to the flat below hills overlooking the north side of Busby. Curly told Black Fox that for his part he was going home.
4 ~ On the ridges overlooking the place where the Dakotas defeated Reno, Red Star said he saw the pack-mules unharnessed in a hollow by their drivers, and there over one ridge to the north came three Crow scouts, Goes Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, and Crow-who-talks-Grosventre. They came to the Arikara scouts and told them to go back because the army was beaten; “the Dakotas kill the soldiers easy,“ that Curly, White Swan, and Big Belly (Crow) were killed. This news was varried by the three scouts to the Crow village at Pryor's Fork, ouch! (Pretty Shield/Red Mother).
5 The Crows, were intending to circle to the west and go home where they lived. The older Arikara scouts told the younger ones to take the Dakota horses down to the creek (near the sheep ranch) and water them.
While they were watering the horses they saw the older scouts chased by the Dakotas back on the trail and more Dakotas coming up to the Reno ford to attack the soldiers.
Then Dakotas attacked them and they left the horses and escaped. The younger scouts were Red Star, Red Bear, Bull-in- Water, Pretty Face, Little Crow, Red Wolf, Pta-a-te (Dakota), White Eagle, Bull. The older scouts were Stabbed, Strikes Two, Strikes-the-Lodge, Ca-roo(Dakota), Ma-tok'-sha (Dakota), Soldier, Boy Chief, and Little Sioux.
Analysis ~
1 ~ Other Ree scouts placed Black Fox in the valley and present as tne companies deployed and fighting began. Goes Ahead did not confirm Black Fox to be on the bluffs, stating that he did not know the where Curley was. For Custer to have been present it was early in the fight and Red Star was in the valley fighting.
2 ~ William (Billy) Cross wore a white cloth about his head, when seen by Pvt. Wylie of Company D, as they advanced along the bluffs after Capt. Weir. This text is unfortunate confusion because Black Fox was known to Pretty Face as the son of his tribes chief. Pretty Face saw William Cross.
3 ~ Black Fox lagged significantly behind the two groups of scouts who moved for Powder River. After the valley fight, Black Fox drops from the record of events, apart from the second hand reference above, until joining the older scouts at the mouth if the Rosebud.
Curley's movements as given to W.M.Camp ~ ‘After I left the Custer battlefield, I went east and crossed the divide to the Rosebud and went down it to its mouth, where the steamer had ferried us across the Yellowstone before we started up the Rosebud. Here I found no one but found Gibbon's trail up the Yellowstone and followed it. I did not overtake Gibbon, but when I got onto the divide east of the Big Horn, I saw the steamer and went to it at the junction of Little Bighorn and the Big Horn. I arrived at the steamer about the middle of the forenoon of the third day [June 28] having been three nights on the way.
Sept 30, 1913 ~ I went on and got to Tullock's fork by dark. There I halted and next went to Sarpy Creek and down it to Yellowstone and up it, on south side, and saw camp over in Pease bottom. In that vicinity I shot and killed a bull (buffalo) and roasted some of the meat, which was the first thing I had to eat since leaving the soldiers.
I went on upstream and picked up Gibbon's trail and followed it to the steamer. On this trail I found fragments of hardtack to eat. After I got to the boat, a white man was going up to the battlefield and I went with him. When I got there the dead had not all been buried. I was sent back to the boat with a message and slept on the boat that night, June 28. I had only one horse when I arrived at the boat.
Gibbon's letter of 28th June, ia600305.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/7/items/contributionstohvol4hist1903rich/contributionstohvol4hist1903rich_jp2.zip&file=contributionstohvol4hist1903rich_jp2/contributionstohvol4hist1903rich_0410.jp2&scale=2&rotate=0
The white man was Bostwick, killed at Powder River in August. Conquest of the Missouri.
4 ~ Interesting news conveyed by three Crow scouts, obviously available to Benteen and Godfrey as packs were being unharnassed and possibly at the lone tepee nearest Ford A.
The Crows tell it as though they remained on the bluffs. Tepee Book, 1916 ~ Hairy Moccasin. 'We saw no more of Curley after that. I don't know where he went.
When we met Custer he asked, "How is it?" I said, "Reno's men are fighting hard." We went with the command down into a dry gulch where we could not see the village.
Custer told Mitch Boyer to tell us to go back to the pack-train, which we did. We met Benteen's command just south of where they afterward entrenched. We said to Benteen, "Do you hear that shooting back where we came from? They're fighting Custer there now."
We started to leave Benteen to join the Ree scouts who were quite a way back up the creek, but Benteen told us to stay, and we did. We went with him and helped dig entrenchments. The firing seemed to stop where Custer was, and the Sioux came toward us. Then Reno's command came back where we were entrenched.
5 ~ Here is the split of the Ree party, after which Cross met Herendeen as he reached the bluffs and scouts went down after scalps, a smoke and drink. They probably bumped into Hunkpapa racing back up the valley, after pickets Herendeen alarmed, reported 14 Soldiers in the valley. An interesting complication of Gall's 1886 press account of events.
Henala.
Where Curley left the command to ride to the south east i133.photobucket.com/albums/q78/KylePix/Places%20Generally/YStone-Mt%20R/110704-4696CalhounHillMrkrs.jpg
It is the great unfortunate (unbelievable) of Little Big Horn that Jas H. Bradley's notes and journal of Gibbon's advance, exist only until sunset of the 26th June 1876. Quite remarkable. fortbenton.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/gallant-lieutenant-james-h-bradley-if.html
Fortunately, the good Lieutenant did give accounts to the press.
From the The Helena Daily Herald, Saturday, July 15, 1876.
PARTICULARS OF THE MASSACRE
LIEUT. JAS. H. Bradley, of the 7th infantry, who commanded the scouts under Gibbon on the recent march from the Yellowstone to the Little Horn and return, arrived in this city last night and left for Fort Shaw this morning.
He left the command one week ago today, in camp near Fort Pease, and everything was quiet. Our reporter interviewed Lieut. Bradley, who very kindly gave us a description of the Little Horn disaster, but more particularly the account of Custer's battle and massacre, which has not heretofore been published.
It would be in place at this juncture to state that Lieut. Bradley, with his scouts, on the morning of the 27th of June, crossed to the opposite side of the Little Horn from which the command was marching, and deployed out through the hills in skirmish line.
Custer's Battlefield About 9 o'clock, a scout reported to Lieut. Bradley that he saw an object which looked like a dead horse. The Lieutenant found it to be a dead cavalry horse, and, going a few yards further on, to the brow of a hill, looking into the valley below, a terrible scene was presented to view.
It was literally strewn with the dead of the gallant Seventh Cavalry. Lieut. Bradley rode hurriedly over the field, and in a few minutes time counted one hundred and ninety-seven dead bodies.
Custer fell upon the highest point of the field; and around him, within a space of five rods square, lay forty-two men and thirty-one horses. The dead soldiers all lay within a circle embracing only a few hundred yards square.
The Lieutenant immediately reported to Gibbon, which was the first intelligence of the battle received. A few moments later a scout arrived from Reno's command, asking for assistance, and Terry and Gibbon pushed forward to the rescue.
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Lieut. Wallace's rubber duck ~ books.google.co.uk/books?id=2wXFvLZrO78C&pg=PA428&lpg=PA428&dq=helena+herald+july+15+1876&source=bl&ots=p9G79DPcCA&sig=2JVLHsEc_TQK4aRpjkMLLVQ8faE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7x8UUY31HcO4hAf9moHoCw&redir_esc=y dated shortly after Frederick Whittaker published his book in 1876 Jan 27, 1877.
Fi notes
1. Hamilton Fish letter to Frederick F. Low, in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congess with the Annual Message of The President. www.history.navy.mil/library/online/marine_amphib_korea.htm
What looks straight is most probably trending left or right. More repeatedly, left.
What may be straight is quite prone to be oblique quartering left or right.
Trap Shooting Secrets, James Russell,1997, p38. books.google.co.uk/books?id=aY7FZ9qqClkC&printsec=frontcover&output=html_text
Authored by the United States Board on Breech-loading Small-arms; United States Army Ordnance Dept:
Report of the Board of officers appointed in pursuance of the act of Congress approved June 6, 1872, for the purpose of selecting a breech-system for the muskets and carbines of the military service, together with their report upon the subject of trowel-bayonets; (1873)
archive.org/stream/reportofboardof00unit#page/22/mode/2up
Discussion of Plains Precision Targeting, 1876. www.n-ssa.org/vbforum/showthread.php/6287-Cheyanne-Indian-and-His-Spencer-Carbine
The class of 1857 ~ penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/1779*.html
Courtesy of Ken Hammer is an interview with Curley, September 30, 1913, which Thomas Le Forge, interpreted.
Mitch and I went on and joined Custer on Medicine Tail Coulee as he was advancing toward the village. He did not halt after we joined him.
He had all the bugles blowing for some time, the purpose of which I did not understand [perhaps he was having them play Garry OwenWMC].
I had seen Reno defeated in the bottom and discussed it with Mitch. I saw Mitch say something to General Custer when we met him and presumed that he must have informed him about Reno's situation.
Twin Peaks
On the battlefield, near Calhoun marker, I saw Mitch talking with the general. Mitch said that Custer told him the command would very likely all be wiped out and he (Custer) wanted the scouts to get out if they could.
I was riding my own horse. I found a dead Sioux and exchanged my Winchester for his Sharps rifle and belt of cartridges.2 On my saddle I had a coat made of a blanket with holes cut out for arms, and a hood over my head. In this fashion I rode out.
I first went over to Lookout Point and remained at the summit, on back side, until sundown. From there I could see soldiers gathered
0. Camp MSS, field notes, unclassified envelope 71, Lilly Library.
2. There is a variance in Curley's statements about the rifle he obtained from the Sioux Indian. In the 1908, 1909, and 1910 interviews it was a Winchester. It may be an error of interpretation here that the rifle was a Sharps. (Quack.... omg, tears hair out, Pull!)
Curley was several times during his life, photographed with his trusty..... Sharp Winchester. The real problem is when Clint Eastwood met Curley?
From Camp's work with Curley, has evolved the following trivial significant.
Frederick Whittaker and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed. by $imples
Part IV Much that is of those following the military camp at Little Big Horn is divisive in petty favoritism of particular members of 7th Cavalry. It is particularism extreme by particularates being particularist and it can be fun to admire, in the way 80 handicaps.
Maj. Reno retired from battle, without orders at around 2pm, 25th June 1876 and did so when he probably should have charged. An interesting aside to the matter eminated from interpreter F.F. Gerard who heard trumpet calls he did not understand, at the time of Maj. Reno's, 'That was a charge, sir!', from the valley into the river.
Interview with Curley, September 30, 1913, Thomas Le Forge, Interpreter
The four Crows remained with Custer until we got to ridge south of Medicine Tail coulee. Here Hairy Moccasin, White Man Runs Him, and Goes Ahead left us, and Mitch and I went on. We joined Custer on Medicine Tail Coulee as he was advancing toward the village. He did not halt after we joined him. He had all the bugles blowing for some time, the purpose of which I did not understand [perhaps he was having them play Garry OwenWMC].
Now Capt. Benteen, i'll call him Fred, has been lambasted in five quarters as dilatory and absent when needed. This is valid criticism of an experienced and obviously able officer. What was he up to, eh? during that tiresome extended march to the left. It doesn't really matter although it can be said in absolute certainty that he can be placed in what is today named Long Otter Creek. This is by his own admission shortly after the battle and to doubt his words is obviously to doubt the man.
It must be obvious to soldier or military student that George Custer intended to concentrate his strength at the village. That quite simply goes without saying, it is given fact FROM which to develop theory of how what happened, happened. In this respect, l will point out Lt. Robert Patterson Hughes who as a member of Gen. Terry's staff, in his letter of 30th June, entirely failed to grasp that team play.
Hughes spent the rest of his life as nemesis, criticising Custer for the mistake Terry made of dividing his force. It was unfortunate, all around, that Custer was able to lead 7th Cavalry, where with Bemteen to defer to, who knows how Reno's luck would have played. Would Reno have continued along the Rosebud to the headwaters of the Tongue, feeling constantly to the left whilsy knowing that Sitting Bull was to his right?
Fred knew were his battalion was to go, his written orders told him. He showed his orders to Alfred Terry, explained why he didn't follow his orders and Terry was obviously impressed, or at least happy that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. Reno was no longer in the valley, when Fred arrived to join and support him there, as you would expect to occur. Go quickly to the big village, Fred. ps please.
I shall now indulge in the twin tepees, some even allocate three of them and a small bunch of escapees running ahead of the cavalry, who hid out in a clump of trees as cavalry rode by them. Which tepee was set alight, that at the White Buttes or the one less than a mile from Ford A. Perhaps both were torched...... but far more interesting is why. Why broadcast your presence when entirely consumed with the risk of Godfrey's delightful scatyeration.
There is one logical reason, only. This was a message, a smoke signal to Terry and it was seen and understood by Terry and, l believe, Bradley and his scouts in Tullock Creek. Perhaps Benteen saw it also, blush.
Flying By saw soldiers attack the Hunkpapa tepees. All Indians that had ponies went to help them fight Reno, some were dismounted. His fight lasted only short time when his horse was shot. Soldiers went through timber and retreated to river. He went back to village for another horse. and Hunkpapa and Minneconjou squaws were taking down tepees.
As soon as Reno retreated, more soldiers were in sight from the village but farther down stream. The soldiers had four or five flags. Custer acted as though would cross and attack village. When he got to Custer, Indians had been fighting quite awhile.
As He Dog charged towards Reno, the soldiers left the timber in two bunches as fast as they could ride up the river. Indian scouts moved out also. He saw Benteen coming and quit pursuing Reno.
Tall Bull told W.M. Camp that Cheyennes call Little Bighorn the Goat River. Their village was at the north end of camp just as I have it. Here is the battle's fundemental problem for all students because the camp moved down steam after the Custer fight. Thus, a map relating to the village as it lay at 2pm, and one desribing it extending further downstream on that day, can both be correct to Tall Bull.
There were 3,000 people in Cheyenne village. Head chiefs Little Bighorn: Two Moons, White Bull, and Lame White Man, who was killed. Only part of Cheyennes and Sioux got into Reno fight in bottoms. Cheyennes did not learn soldiers coming until Reno attacked. The Sioux must have known of approach of soldiers but Cheyennes did not.
After returning from Reno, women going over east to get on high ground to overlook Reno fight discovered Custer coming. Custer got onto flat near Ford B within easy gunshot of village, and Indians drove him back.
Red Star's Additional Arikara Narrative interview went like this,
1 ~ When Custer stood at the bank where Hodgson's stone stands. Curly and Black Fox (Arikara) were there with him (Goes Ahead confirms this).
2 ~ Pretty Face reported that after he had joined the Arikara scouts he saw an Arikara with a white cloth about his head. Black Fox was the only Arikara with this on.
3 ~ When Black Fox reached the mouth of the Rosebud he met the older scouts already there. He said he and Curly got together near Reno ford. They went to the flat below hills overlooking the north side of Busby. Curly told Black Fox that for his part he was going home.
4 ~ On the ridges overlooking the place where the Dakotas defeated Reno, Red Star said he saw the pack-mules unharnessed in a hollow by their drivers, and there over one ridge to the north came three Crow scouts, Goes Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, and Crow-who-talks-Grosventre. They came to the Arikara scouts and told them to go back because the army was beaten; “the Dakotas kill the soldiers easy,“ that Curly, White Swan, and Big Belly (Crow) were killed. This news was varried by the three scouts to the Crow village at Pryor's Fork, ouch! (Pretty Shield/Red Mother).
5 The Crows, were intending to circle to the west and go home where they lived. The older Arikara scouts told the younger ones to take the Dakota horses down to the creek (near the sheep ranch) and water them.
While they were watering the horses they saw the older scouts chased by the Dakotas back on the trail and more Dakotas coming up to the Reno ford to attack the soldiers.
Then Dakotas attacked them and they left the horses and escaped. The younger scouts were Red Star, Red Bear, Bull-in- Water, Pretty Face, Little Crow, Red Wolf, Pta-a-te (Dakota), White Eagle, Bull. The older scouts were Stabbed, Strikes Two, Strikes-the-Lodge, Ca-roo(Dakota), Ma-tok'-sha (Dakota), Soldier, Boy Chief, and Little Sioux.
Analysis ~
1 ~ Other Ree scouts placed Black Fox in the valley and present as tne companies deployed and fighting began. Goes Ahead did not confirm Black Fox to be on the bluffs, stating that he did not know the where Curley was. For Custer to have been present it was early in the fight and Red Star was in the valley fighting.
2 ~ William (Billy) Cross wore a white cloth about his head, when seen by Pvt. Wylie of Company D, as they advanced along the bluffs after Capt. Weir. This text is unfortunate confusion because Black Fox was known to Pretty Face as the son of his tribes chief. Pretty Face saw William Cross.
3 ~ Black Fox lagged significantly behind the two groups of scouts who moved for Powder River. After the valley fight, Black Fox drops from the record of events, apart from the second hand reference above, until joining the older scouts at the mouth if the Rosebud.
Curley's movements as given to W.M.Camp ~ ‘After I left the Custer battlefield, I went east and crossed the divide to the Rosebud and went down it to its mouth, where the steamer had ferried us across the Yellowstone before we started up the Rosebud. Here I found no one but found Gibbon's trail up the Yellowstone and followed it. I did not overtake Gibbon, but when I got onto the divide east of the Big Horn, I saw the steamer and went to it at the junction of Little Bighorn and the Big Horn. I arrived at the steamer about the middle of the forenoon of the third day [June 28] having been three nights on the way.
Sept 30, 1913 ~ I went on and got to Tullock's fork by dark. There I halted and next went to Sarpy Creek and down it to Yellowstone and up it, on south side, and saw camp over in Pease bottom. In that vicinity I shot and killed a bull (buffalo) and roasted some of the meat, which was the first thing I had to eat since leaving the soldiers.
I went on upstream and picked up Gibbon's trail and followed it to the steamer. On this trail I found fragments of hardtack to eat. After I got to the boat, a white man was going up to the battlefield and I went with him. When I got there the dead had not all been buried. I was sent back to the boat with a message and slept on the boat that night, June 28. I had only one horse when I arrived at the boat.
Gibbon's letter of 28th June, ia600305.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/7/items/contributionstohvol4hist1903rich/contributionstohvol4hist1903rich_jp2.zip&file=contributionstohvol4hist1903rich_jp2/contributionstohvol4hist1903rich_0410.jp2&scale=2&rotate=0
The white man was Bostwick, killed at Powder River in August. Conquest of the Missouri.
4 ~ Interesting news conveyed by three Crow scouts, obviously available to Benteen and Godfrey as packs were being unharnassed and possibly at the lone tepee nearest Ford A.
The Crows tell it as though they remained on the bluffs. Tepee Book, 1916 ~ Hairy Moccasin. 'We saw no more of Curley after that. I don't know where he went.
When we met Custer he asked, "How is it?" I said, "Reno's men are fighting hard." We went with the command down into a dry gulch where we could not see the village.
Custer told Mitch Boyer to tell us to go back to the pack-train, which we did. We met Benteen's command just south of where they afterward entrenched. We said to Benteen, "Do you hear that shooting back where we came from? They're fighting Custer there now."
We started to leave Benteen to join the Ree scouts who were quite a way back up the creek, but Benteen told us to stay, and we did. We went with him and helped dig entrenchments. The firing seemed to stop where Custer was, and the Sioux came toward us. Then Reno's command came back where we were entrenched.
5 ~ Here is the split of the Ree party, after which Cross met Herendeen as he reached the bluffs and scouts went down after scalps, a smoke and drink. They probably bumped into Hunkpapa racing back up the valley, after pickets Herendeen alarmed, reported 14 Soldiers in the valley. An interesting complication of Gall's 1886 press account of events.
Henala.
Where Curley left the command to ride to the south east i133.photobucket.com/albums/q78/KylePix/Places%20Generally/YStone-Mt%20R/110704-4696CalhounHillMrkrs.jpg
It is the great unfortunate (unbelievable) of Little Big Horn that Jas H. Bradley's notes and journal of Gibbon's advance, exist only until sunset of the 26th June 1876. Quite remarkable. fortbenton.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/gallant-lieutenant-james-h-bradley-if.html
Fortunately, the good Lieutenant did give accounts to the press.
From the The Helena Daily Herald, Saturday, July 15, 1876.
PARTICULARS OF THE MASSACRE
LIEUT. JAS. H. Bradley, of the 7th infantry, who commanded the scouts under Gibbon on the recent march from the Yellowstone to the Little Horn and return, arrived in this city last night and left for Fort Shaw this morning.
He left the command one week ago today, in camp near Fort Pease, and everything was quiet. Our reporter interviewed Lieut. Bradley, who very kindly gave us a description of the Little Horn disaster, but more particularly the account of Custer's battle and massacre, which has not heretofore been published.
It would be in place at this juncture to state that Lieut. Bradley, with his scouts, on the morning of the 27th of June, crossed to the opposite side of the Little Horn from which the command was marching, and deployed out through the hills in skirmish line.
Custer's Battlefield About 9 o'clock, a scout reported to Lieut. Bradley that he saw an object which looked like a dead horse. The Lieutenant found it to be a dead cavalry horse, and, going a few yards further on, to the brow of a hill, looking into the valley below, a terrible scene was presented to view.
It was literally strewn with the dead of the gallant Seventh Cavalry. Lieut. Bradley rode hurriedly over the field, and in a few minutes time counted one hundred and ninety-seven dead bodies.
Custer fell upon the highest point of the field; and around him, within a space of five rods square, lay forty-two men and thirty-one horses. The dead soldiers all lay within a circle embracing only a few hundred yards square.
The Lieutenant immediately reported to Gibbon, which was the first intelligence of the battle received. A few moments later a scout arrived from Reno's command, asking for assistance, and Terry and Gibbon pushed forward to the rescue.
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Lieut. Wallace's rubber duck ~ books.google.co.uk/books?id=2wXFvLZrO78C&pg=PA428&lpg=PA428&dq=helena+herald+july+15+1876&source=bl&ots=p9G79DPcCA&sig=2JVLHsEc_TQK4aRpjkMLLVQ8faE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7x8UUY31HcO4hAf9moHoCw&redir_esc=y dated shortly after Frederick Whittaker published his book in 1876 Jan 27, 1877.
Fi notes
1. Hamilton Fish letter to Frederick F. Low, in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congess with the Annual Message of The President. www.history.navy.mil/library/online/marine_amphib_korea.htm
