EXPLANATION OF PLATE XCVII 



< tompiled from map l>> Lieutenant T. Q. Donaldson, Seventh United States cavalrj kindly loaned l>y 

 l)i J. \< Glennan, United States inm 



A and I. Seventy-six men from A and I troops forming dismounted line of sentinels. 



B. Troop B dismounted and in line. 



C. Troop C mounted and in line (sorrel troop). 



D. Troop D mounted and in line (black troop). 



E. Troop E mounted and in line (bay troop). 

 (i. Troop G mounted and in line (gray troop) 

 K. Troop K dismounted and in line. 



S. Indian scouts. 



1. Tent from which a hostile warrior shot two soldiers. 



2. Tent occupied by Big Foot and his wife and in front of which the former was 



killed. 



3. Tents put up for the use of Big Foot's baud. 



4. Council ring in or near which were General Forsyth, Major Whitside, Captain 



Varnniii. Captain Huff, Captain Wallace, Doctor Glennan, Lieutenant Knbinson, 

 Lieutenant Nicholson, Lieutenant McCormick, and the reporters. 



5. Officers' tents, first battalion. 



U. Enlisted mens' tents, first hattalion. 



7. Bivouac of see 1 battalion on night of December 28, 1890. 



S. Four Hotchkiss guns and detachment of First artillery, under Captain Capron, 



First artillery, and Lieutenant Hawthorne, Second artillery. 

 9. Indian village. 



10. Indian ponies. 



11. Dismounted line of sentinels. 

 11'. Captains Ilsley and Moylau. 



13. Lieutenants Garliugtou and Waterman. 



14. Captain Godfrey and Lieutenant Tompkins. 



15. Captain Jackson and Lieutenant Donaldson. 



10. Lieutenant Taylor, Ninth cavalry, commanding Indian scouts (S). 

 17. Captain Edgerly and Lieutenant Brewer. 

 is. Captain Nowlan and Lieutenant Gresham. 



19. Indian houses. 



20. Lieutenants Sickel and Rice. 



.lust beyond the limit of the map, toward the west, the ravine forms a bend, in 

 which a n n in be i' of hostiles took refuge, and from which Lieu tenant Hawthorne was 

 shot. Captain Wallace was found near the center of the council ring. Big Fool 

 was killed two or three yards in froutof his tent. Father Craft was near the center 

 of the ring when stabbed. The Indians broke to the west through 1! and K troops. 

 While in the council ring all the warriors had 4111 blankets, with their arms, princi 

 pally Winchester rifles, concealed under them. Most of the warriors, including the 

 medicine-man, were painted and wore ghost shirts. 



