The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-07
VOL. KILL 29S.
THE BLOODY SIOUX WAR,
rHIRTEEN OFFICERS AND 26e MEN
MAsshCRED BY INDIANS.

MASSHCRED BY lNDl4Nos
n.,. Custer, hi. Two Brothers. his Nephew
and Brother-in-Lsw Dying At the Head
Of their Commspd-Ibe Indians Number
ing FROM 5000 to 1000, mud better Armed
than the 1roops-The News Confirmed.
BISMARCK, d. T., July 81 have just ar
rived here by boat. Gen. Custer and thirteen
ofncsrs, and 300 men OF the Seventh Cavalry
have been massscred bv the Inoisns. The war
riors nun bered from 5000 to 1000 strong. aud
were better armed than the troops. The agbt
occurred on June IS on the Little Big Horn,
eighty miles from assistance.
SALT LAKE Crrr. July 5.-The Times pub
nshss dispatch from Boseman, Montana Ter
htory. dated July 8, p. NJ;
Mr.. Taylor, bearer OF dispatches from Little
Horn to Fort Ellis, arrived this evening, and re-
ports the following:
The battle was fought on the 25th Of June,
thirty or forty miles below the Little Horn.
Gen Custer attacked an Indian village OF from
s.5OO to 1000 warriors on one side, aud Col. Reno
was to attack It on the other side.
Three companies were placed on bill as q re-
,orvs Gen. Custer and fifteen officers and
svery man belonging to the ave companies were
killed.
Reno retreatod under the protection Of the re-
,erve. The whole number killed was 3l5 Gen.
Gibbons Joined Reno.
when the Indians left, the attic -ned looked
ake Slaughter pen, as It really was, being In q
narrow rsvne. The dead we're much mutilated.
The situation now looks serious.
Gen. Terry arrived at Giobons's camp on Q
panied It to ioin Custer, who knew tvs
coming before the nRht occurred. Lieut.. Crit
lenten. son Of Gen. Cittenden. was among the
Killed. -
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 5-The special
corrspondent OF tho Helena (Mont.) Herald
whites from Saltwater, Montana, under date OF
Juy 2. as follows:
huggins Taylor, scout for Gen. Gibbon, ar
rived here last night direct from Little Horn
River, and reports that Gen. Custer found the
Indian camp of 1900 lodges on the Little Horn,
aud att cked It, He CHARGED the thckest
portion Of the camp with ave companies. Moth
lug Is known OF the operations Of this detach-
ment except their course as treced by the dead.
Major Reno commanded the other seven COM
panies, and attacked the lower portion Of the
camp. The Indians poured a murderous nrs
from all directions.
Gen. Custer, his two brothers, bis nephew and
brothsr-in-lsw were all killed, and not one OF
his detachment escaped. Two hundred and
sevsn men we're buried In one place. The num-
ter OF killed is estimated at 300 and the wound
cd At thirty-ons. The Indians surrounded
Major Reno's comm and and held them one day
In the hills, cut on from water, until Giobons's
command came In sight, when they broke camp
In the night and left.
The Seventh fought like tigers. and were over
rome by mere brute force. The Indian loss
not be estimated, a. they bore on aud cached
most Of their killed.
The rsmnant OF the Seventh Cavalry and Glib
bons's command are returning to the mouth Of
the Little Horn. where a steamboat lies. The
Indians got all the arms OF the killed soldiers.
There were seventeen commissioned ofrcers
killed. The whole OF the Custer family died at
the head Of their column. The exact los. Is not
known. as both Aujutants and the Sergeant Ma
jor were KILT ed.
The Indian camp was from three to four miles
long. and was twenty miles up the Little
Horn from Its mouth. Tns Indians actually
pulled men on their horses 10 some inst nces.
This report Is given as Ia, lor told IL. as be WIS
over the field after the battle. Tue sonve 10
confirmed BY other letters, which say Gen. Gus.
Ter has met with a fearful disaster.
THE NAMES OF oEs. oUsrER's OFFICERS.
CHICAGO, july GA despatch CONFIRMING the
report oi Gen. Cu,ter's ngnt on be Lit le Horn
tiyer. hes ist been received al Gen. Sheriu.D's
The following was the organization OF Gen.
George A. Clusters regiment:
r: fir Il ti,Ss Ut. " u csos ,a,aS msa,. on.,t.rm,,
- M, A Rsuo. cominan Ilus ris { wing.
sasssn ksSss. com ntaSis@ .aan FIT r.; sssss s.ass.oa
eaS T. S.T fTS sTeos. ..,. ..'a
t-pl z. 4. Frenoa, cImniAIdlnE Fourth Battalion.
,St ss6ssssi. S comm: a. dlss sSaS.os eons = nyB.
Leu; s. s. E..srg eSSs com S.aain. Com
S.ps. ., v. Ya..., e"min.Saias COMPANY PlA' -
r. Lieut. GSa oSSn eom.Ss nSns &c eOpans
tir Lieu ! + Porter, Commanding cymp>ay
ks san alss S%.sS. nsRs.1. cS%S-I, SaaS
Ir,i Lieut.. c. {. De r.. l.ched 10 Company A.
eoaS seeoSS Lieut. r.s .s,os sss Ss Go eSP eg
sssSn s,sSnc Lieut. Lieut. l. 3 Hare ..t.ea.a 70 copPAnyK
second Lieut., " v. ". Reilly, .ttached ~ Com
Second Lieut. c. A. vArnum. commanding Indian
The MILITARY SITUATION BEFORE THE BATTLE.
DETnorT, July 6.-Surgeon s.cGiliicu Idy OF
Yen. Crooks comm nd. 10 letter from Fort
EsIterman to tue Detroit Free Press ia ed June
Custer ,nd his troops were mass .creu, SIX etcned
ths miit.ry situation as follows
osn' ot4ok ~itn twelve hundred soldiers, the
man body OF the troops a0linR against the
Sioux. two hundred and seventy Grow, Snake,
,spd spd Snoshone Indians, hereditary enemies OF
ths SIOUX, acting ~ scouts. and one hundred
and four six:muls wagon teams. with provisions,
s. 40, wa, M a, the psrmane supply camp, nitssn
niles northwest OF old ForI Phil Kssrnsy on
uoose Oresk. which stream puIsues . nortneriy
course and emPties into the Yellowstone e.
sard OF the Big Horn river in Montana
One hundred and twenty miles north by the
prictioAols WAGON road. and on Rosebud creek
hear its oon1usnos with the Yellow stone. are
i've fortified Indian villages occupied by force
81 Syn wsrnSn. oo%@A"d.d .. sit,ing Bull.
Red Cloud. and Mission Agency OF Sioux Ara
that Lone Wolf With Loo Northern cnsSsDDss
we're we'll armed and mad plenty uf am nunition,
which thov have been ssvins up for tnrss Years
Gen. Crook contemplated an advance u the.s
Indians, who were raidinE bis cattle ana hao
carried "a his last ave head of besves.
On FRIDAY, the 10Th, Gen. Ferry, accompanied
bv Gen. Gibbons and Gen. Cus.er. was on the
north SIDE Of the YELLOWSTONE, opposite to and
not many miles from the Indisns on Rosebud
creek. aud was engaged 10 frequent skirnisnes
with them. I he week previous nc had sent two
companies Of lnfanty across the river 20 drive
the lnuians from the vicinity Of the fOrtIned
village, but the soldiers we're rep Used anu
Obliged 10 retreat. 1nis adoed To the hudacity
ana eKulta ion OF the IndIans. AT he sime