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MALLERY.] BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN. 565 
been told me that he was killed by a Santee Indian, who took his horse. This offi- 
cer wore a large-brimmed hat and a deerskin coat, This officer saved the lives of 
many soldiers by turning his horse and covering the retreat. Sioux say this officer 
was the bravest man they ever fought. I saw two officers looking alike, both hav- 
ing long yellowish hair. 
Before the attack the Sioux were camped on the Rosebud river. Sioux moved 
down a river running into the Little Bighorn river, crossed the Little Bighorn 
river, and camped on its west bank. 
This day [day of attack] a Sioux man started to go to Red Cloud ageney, but when 
he had gone a short distance from camp he saw a cloud of dust rising and turned 
back and said he thought a herd of buffalo was coming near the village. 
The day was hot. Ina short time the soldiers charged the camp. [This was Maj. 
Reno’s battalion of the Seventh Cavalry.]. The soldiers came on the trail made by 
the Sioux camp in moving, and crossed the Little Bighorn river above where the 
Sioux crossed, and attacked the lodges of the Uncpapas, farthest up the river. The 
women and children ran down the Little Bighorn river a short distance into a 
ravine. The soldiers set fire to the lodges. All the Sioux now charged the soldiers 
[Pl. xii1] and drove them in confusion across the Little Bighorn river, which was 
very rapid, and several soldiers were drowned in it. On a hill the soldiers stopped 
and the Sioux surrounded them. A Sioux man came and said that a different party 
of soldiers had’ all the women and children prisoners. Like a whirlwind the word 
went around, and the Sioux all heard it and left the soldiers on the hill and went 
quickly to save the women and children. _ 
From the hill that the soldiers were on to the place where the different soldiers 
[by this term Red-Horse always means the battalion immediately commanded by 
General Custer, his mode of distinction being that they were a different body from 
that first encountered] were seen was level ground with the exception of a creek. 
Sioux thought the soldiers on the hill [i. e., Reno’s battalion] would charge them in 
rear, but when they did not the Sioux thought the soldiers on the hill were out of 
cartridges. As soon as we had killed all the different soldiers [P]. xL111 shows the 
fighting with Custer’s battalion] the Sioux all went back to kill the soldiers on the 
ill. All the Sioux watched around the hill on which were the soldiers until a Sioux 
man came and said many walking soldiers were coming near. The coming of the 
walking soldiers was the saving of the soldiers on the hill. Sioux can not fight the 
walking soldiers [infantry], aeing afraid of them, so the Sioux hurriedly left. 
The soldiers charged the Sioux camp about noon. The soldiers were divided, one 
party charging right into the camp. After driving these soldiers across the river, 
the Sioux charged the different soldiers [i. e., Custer’s] below, and drove them in 
confusion; these soldiers became foolish, many throwing away their guns and raising 
their hands, saying, “ Sioux, pity us; take us prisoners.” The Sioux did not take a 
single soldier prisoner, but killed all of them; none were left alive for even a few 
minutes. These different soldiers discharged their guns but little. I took a gun 
and two belts off two dead soldiers; out of-one belt two cartridges were gone, out 
of the other five. 
The Sioux took the guns and cartridges off the dead soldiers and went to the hill 
on which the soldiers were, surrounded and fought them with the guns and cartridges 
of the dead soldiers. Had the soldiers not divided I think they would have killed 
many Sioux. The different soldiers [i. e., Custer’s battalion] that the Sioux Killed 
made five brave stands. Once the Sioux charged right in the midst of the different 
soldiers and scattered them all, fighfing among the soldiers hand to hand. 
One band of soldiers was in rear of the Sioux. When this band of soldiers charged, 
the Sioux fell back, and the Sioux and the soldiers stood facing each other. Then 
all the Sioux became brave and charged the soldiers. The Sioux went but a short 
distance before they separated and surrounded the soldiers. I could see the officers 
riding in front of the soldiers and hear them shouting. Now the Sioux had many 
