Post by coverup on Sept 3, 2021 18:08:01 GMT -6
How does 10000 plus Indians having left the reservations and knowing about the summer campaign that was threatened if all did not come in during the winter. Crook was faught and it was known other troops were in the country and it was believed that the village was so big that they did not have to worry about an attack, even with Sitting Bull's vision that the Troops would fall into his camp. The attack was at 2 in the afternoon, the hardtack and night march was discovered at daylight, the ponies were like worms in the distance because as Girard said, they were being gathered up. There was at least 6 indians seen at the time of the Crow's Nest and Varnum noticed some before and after. The troops had to be prepared.... (Which brings up the next thread of the importance of who gave the order to advance while Custer was at the Crow's nest and why is that an important question at the RCOI?) But the dust was so large that every person that testified at the RCOI when asked about dust said that was how they located and could tell the speed of troops, location of the Indians, the idea that the village was on the run, The location of Benteen and also of the packs when they got to Reno Hill....
Wallace on page 28 of the RCOI or page 29 ... who was the first person at the Battle to testify and early in his testimony he says this... "My opinion is they knew from the time we left the mouth of the rosebud, on the 22nd of June, what we were doing and exactly which way we were moving. Our scouts saw their scouts that morning watching us and saw them rding back into the village. They knew of our approach and were ready to receive us. after we cross the stream and move towards the village their running was only a sham. they ran in and as we moved up they came back to meet us.... "
The fact that on Reno's retreat to the bluffs there was Indians shooting down on the troops from the bluffs near the point where E company was last seen and so they waited on the bluff and allowed troops in the valley to go by and also troops near them on the bluffs. They did not go to the sound of battle but waited at a point where they could see Reno and Custer and the dust of Benteen and the Packs.
Wallace on page 28 of the RCOI or page 29 ... who was the first person at the Battle to testify and early in his testimony he says this... "My opinion is they knew from the time we left the mouth of the rosebud, on the 22nd of June, what we were doing and exactly which way we were moving. Our scouts saw their scouts that morning watching us and saw them rding back into the village. They knew of our approach and were ready to receive us. after we cross the stream and move towards the village their running was only a sham. they ran in and as we moved up they came back to meet us.... "
The fact that on Reno's retreat to the bluffs there was Indians shooting down on the troops from the bluffs near the point where E company was last seen and so they waited on the bluff and allowed troops in the valley to go by and also troops near them on the bluffs. They did not go to the sound of battle but waited at a point where they could see Reno and Custer and the dust of Benteen and the Packs.