The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-07-13
THE INDIAN WAR.
.uS OF THE INDIAN FIGHT.

.pS OF THE INDIAN FIGHT.
.r.,urxaroN, July There is yet
Wae :ai renort of the battle. Gen.
no onio lives a detailed account ofevents
T ere 2 the fight and operations after
o ger 18th of June, which Is mainly con
sns .d To bringing OIL the WOUNDED.
n n..ter left Rosebud on the ga with
Cuss. .a Companies OF the Seventh Cav
sMelseo IN he oath fresh trail was
airy. +ad and on the morning of the 18th
reP 9a.dv, village, three miles long and
al tnu n,;ie wide was reported fifteen
ban IF Custar pushed for it. They
nlles , v IS miles in "a hours preced-
l ina rattle. When hear the village
ms .nd appeared to be moving in
- t haste as if retreating. Reno with
Dol h"s ",nnanies was ordered to attack
sese n;Uht Custer with five vigorously
mI.. ms the left of the camp: Reno
s ~. them with three companies and
~. Immediately surrounded, and ar
W. .n hours fighting, loosing Lieuten-
V. t II Hodgson and McItesh and twelve
ansS md several Indian scouts killed
men ~ wounded, cut his way out
az a Gained bluff 800 feet high, where
~ = a,strenehed and was soon joined by
r r. er Ranteen with four companies.
H Masa The Indians made repeated as
Iii. s Int were repulsed with great
.nchter. The Indians finally gained
|1sIrher ground than Reno and with
ioncer range guns than the cavalry,
Iept up CALLING fire till night. The
Italians renewed attack at daylight.
n i had lost forty odd killed before
.ssching the bluff. Many hand to
tsrd conflicts. The Indians outnum-
I Ss.s.d them ten to- one. The men were
S;thoIt water thirty-six hours, and
M Aetermined to reach water at all
ssr.nls. Col. Benteen made sally and
,anted the body guarding the approach
- water. Water was gained with one
Tiled and seven wounded. Fighting
.assed for the night, during which
Reno prepared to resist further attack.
They had now been forty-eight hours
dghting, with no word from Custer.
Tyenty-four hours more of suspense
|. and lighting ended, when the Indians
abandoned their village in great haste.
General Terry, with Gibbon, command
IN bis infantry, had arrived and as
a. comrades met the men wept on
eaeh others necks. Enquiry had been
made for Custer, but none could tell
where he was. Soon an officer came
rushing into camp and related that he
| had found Custer dead, stripped naked,
but not tnutilated, and near him his
Two brothers, Colonels Tom and Bos-
4 ton Custer, his lrother-in-law, Lie. :
! tenant Calhoun, and his nephew, Col.
Yates, Col. Keogh, Captain Smith,
+ Iieut. Crittenden, Lieut.. Sturgis, Col
= anel Cooke, Lieutenant Porter, Lieut..
l Harrington, DIR. Lord and Mack Kel-
beg, the Bismarck Tribune cores
pendent, and one hundred and ninety
men and scouts. Custer went into the
hattie with companies c, L, /, + and T.,
ii the Seventh Cavalry and the staff
aud commissioned staff of his regi-
nlent and q number of scouts. Only
one Crow scout remained TO tell the
hle Of the dead.
1 BISMARCK, July Cluster was sur
nanded on everyside by the Indians,
and horses fell as they fought on the
/ skirmish line, in line of battle. Custer
Vas among the last who fell, but when
bis cheering voice was no longer heard
the Indians made easy work Of the re-
maineder. The bodies of all save the
newspaper correspondents, were strip
ped, and most of them were horribly
initiated. Custer was shot through
he body and through the head. The
Troops cared for the wounded and hur'
I'D the dead, and returned to theil
camp for supplies and instructions from
ne general Of the army. Col. Smiti
anived ut Bismarck last night will
thirty I've of the wounded. The In
dhns lost heavily in the battle. Th'
Cow scout survived by hiding in ;
nvine. He believes the Indians los
nfe, than the whites. The villag'
numbered 1900 lodges, and it is though
here were 1000 various. Gen. Gus
" was directed by Gen. Terry to flint
aud feel of the Indians but not to figh
unless Terry arrived with the infantr.
and with Gibbons column. The Her
I'd correspondent, Kellogg, was killed