River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-08-03
LONESOME CHARLEY.,
Daring Deeds OF Brave Scout Who Fell in
Clusters Last Charge.

Clusters Last Charge.
Correspondence ~ the New York Graphic
Now that the details Of the terrible
battle on the Little Horn have come
now that the list of the dead IS spread
ont before us, and the story Of their
terrible fate is told with all its horrors.
the more we realize what an act of
awful bravery that ride Of Custer was.
Linking facts with circumstances, and
the truth is apparent that oyer-con.
idence was the cause of their death.
Three hundred drawer men never died
IN war there never was a sterner test
Of personal courage.
see in the list of the killed the
name of Charley Reynolds Lone.
some Charley Reynolds. Tie was one
Of those remarkable characters some.
times met with i'm the rude life Of the
frUutier- more remarkable in some
respects than any IL has ever been my
4, foi tune to meet in somewhat varied
/ experience and a somewhat wide as
ISOLATION with people of his class for
/ under his rough exterior there was 4
soul as refined and gentle rs ever reign.
/ ed in wOman's breast, and, rs is IN.
/ usual IN such eases. no amount of
/ vulgar association or want of kindred
sympathy could dull its lustrc one de.
! gree.
When Custer was at the base OF
lIarney's peak in 1874. and our cam
was ahlaZe with excitement over tn,
gold discoveries, Custer sent for Bloody
Knife, the chief of his scouts, and ask
cd for an Indian TO carry dispatches I,
Fort Laramie, 9N0 miles below us
Bloody Knife shook his head so'emnly
and said in reply:
My warriors are brave, but the
are wise. They will carry a bag o
letters 10 Fort Lincoln, but canno
ask them To- 90 through the Siou
country TO Laramie"
Fort Lincoln was 200 miles falthc
than Laramie, although the route {
the latter place was beset with tenful
more dangers. II led directly throug
the Sioux hunting ground, and Just d
this particular time Of the year tn
young men were al out in huntin
PARTIES. SO that the plains were full q
them. Bloody knife's braves wer
Recs--a tribe for which the Sioux ha
' q hereditary Cnmity, and he was to
wise 20 ask one of them TO mdcrtak
so suicidal a project. But mails mu.
be sent somewhere, and Custer vi
bordering what To do. Charley Re-
nolds was sitting 10y ON the groun,
. with his legs crossed, cleaning n
volver, seemingly inattentivr 10 IN
{ conversation. custer had been thinl
. ing but q moment when REYNOLDS lool
ed mp and said
I'm carry the mails to Iarami,
general"
Custer was familiar with courage
every form, hut such proposltio
: surprised even him.
= II wouldn't ask 20 20, REYNOLDS.
2 he said.
II have no fear, responded II
scout quietly "when will the mai
/. be ready
~ was intending to send somethir
tomorrow night. replied Custer.
III go tomorrow night.
And picking up his piece Of buckshi
and bottle of oil, Reynolds strod
quietly away.
There goes a man. said luste
who Is a constant succession of su
: priscs To me-. am getting su that
feel q humiliation in his presence
Scarcely a day passes. and In,
known him three years. that does n,
develop some new and strong trait
his character would rs soon I'm,
y asked my brother Tom 10 carr, ma
2 20 Laramie as Reynolds.
y The next DAY Z saw Reynolds lead 4
= old, illshaped, h1ny. dun.culor,
/. horse % the farrIer 5, was som
what curious 90 know { he was gn.f
70 ride that animal a. Laramie IN
asked him
"ics, SAID nc, IN his quiet wa
r "Ihc general let me pick my M
mount and I've got the one that sni
me.
! Noticing my surprise at hi, cAol,
{ be continued
y IL suppose could have picked out
/ hetter.lOoking one. hu, this is the sa
I for my trim - Aut e,stUvt,,a, a.. -