New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-23
Incidents Of the Recent Battle.
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General MAk0nzl0 with tho A00lano, SoeA ~
eyewitness, arc coming in, and some OF
them arc interesting. A correspondent of
tho New York Herald thus describes differ
emit exciting incidents Of the day:
A corporal and . private had just had
close tight with two hostiles Ut an advanced
Z feV Yards Of esoh other. At the first fire
the corporal fell. Then the private fred,
kiln the Indian who had killed the cor.
moral. and the other Indian fed. ! secured
through the field for some time again. and
the fire still csme from twenty different
points in tho hills beyond. Dead horses
were lying about ct different points, but
the men were now oil dismounted. and the
horses securely sheltered from the fire In
the rsvines and behind the bluffs. The
killed and wounded were now being taken
to the right of tho field. whore Drs. Wood
and LeGsrde were attending to the wants
of the living and sheltering tho dead. In
the meantime tho hostilos had gotten their
women and children into tho montana
beyond tho western end Of the canyon. l
came back again to tho village and found
number Of our Indians, some soldiers ana
civil employees Of the expedition going
through the lodges searching for roles.
At one point net . soldier who told me
be had iust seen . elk guidon Of the Sew
enth CAVITY, which was found in . tepee
In use q . cover for pillow. There were
also found in tho village . guard roster OF
Company G, Seventh Cavalry, saddles,
canteene, nosebags, curryoonos and
brushes, shovels and axes, marked with the
enth Cavalry. . memorandum. book with
| liat of the names of the three best marks.
mon ct target practice in Captain Donald
Mackintosk's company, Seventh Cavalry;
rosters of other companiee OF tho seventh;
| a letter written BY an enlisted man Of the
Seventh Cavalry to . young lady, the letter
already stamped and directed. This Will
| be forwarded. Several horses OF the Sev-
enth Cavalry were found among the herds
men were also found, gold pencil case, Q
silver watch, pocketbOoks with sums OF
money, some gold pieces, the hat of First
| Sergeant William Allen of Company l,
| Third Cavalry, killed in the Rosebud fight,
| with the company stamp and his initials on
| it; an officers overcoat Of dark blue army
| cloth, an officers rubber coat and two 9TH
| GERS blouses, . buckskin coat OF American
make, with . bullet hole in the shoulder,
and supposed to be the coat worn by Tom
| Custer 10 the Little Big Horn fight; bullet
molds, field glasses, etc.
| Among the Iadiad trophies in possession
| of our troops now are three beaded neck
| laces ornsmented With human fingers. One
has depending from it ten fingers. one
seven, and one shOwn me by Lieutenant
Burke has eight fingers strung round 1t. :,
We have belt. found in the village, fuli
| of cartridges, with q silver plate marked
Little Wolf" given this doughty chief 81
Washington . few years ago. We also
found . pass for Roman Nose from Red
| Cloud, giving him permission to leave the
reservation few days to search for LOST
| mules.
Bullets came in just over our heads from
the crest of the mountain on the north
from . mound slmost directly in front, an(
others fell near our feet, shot from behind
some rocks on the hills to the southwest O.
M. A soldier who had tried to leave jus
after arrived had his hat shot of. HI
calmly picked it up again, put 1t on, and 81
he moved slowly away looked very angr,
as he glanced toward the point from whicl
the ball came. :.
One Indian had found . secure place il
tho hills and played shsrpehooter nearly 81
day with one Of Sharps' long range rifles
The gun must have ehot q cartridge con
tanning about l20 grains of powder. Ever.
time he fred the report seemed to rend tn
very walls of the canyon, echoing like tn
roar of cannon from hill to hill Late Il
the afternoon o cheer went up from som
of our boys in front and the big gun wa
silent thereafter. subsequently heard th
fellow was killed by one Of Captain Dsvil
men, but the other Indisns near him 60
away with the gun. Gradually the India
fire ceased until toward shutdown when
had stopped altogether. All our killed an
/, wounded but one man, who fell on an O.
T posed bluff near the end of tho canyon. ha
. been got in before this time and just ate
shutdown his body was brought in.
As twilight fell upon the scene some
| our Indian soldiers kept popping away
, hostiles who, in the cover of darkness, wei
creeping from their hiding places in tn
rookie; but do not think they fired wit
, much effect. Numerous pickets were poste
on the hills before nightfall, for we apr
hended . reaewal of the fight by eundow
. or q little afterward. But night fell upo
| our battlefield, and with it came peace an
silence about the hostile village.
Our killed and wounded had been tran
' ferred from the north eide of the field
q the shelter of the bluff on the right. al
there I found the extent of our loss vi
: one officer and five men killed and INVENT
t five men and one Indian wounded. III
= small proportion of Indians shot in Il
fight is traceable to their familiarity wi
the manner of fighting of their own pc
o ple and to the shrewdness with which thu
+ evaded fire ON the field while fighting
J.. times quite as we'll as four regulars. The
chief usefulness, however, consisted
their employment as scouts and in leadil
the first dash at the hostiles to captu
+ their ponies and demoralize them by sho
b ing them that their own people were
rayed against them. They can not be d
a ciplined to fight like white soldiers. T.
of the Shosh0nes and one of the Sioux b
horses shot under them and yet escaped U
hurt. During the fight Three Bears b
q his horse shot under him and rode ba
past me mounted behind smother Indian,
search of . pony on which to renew
fight.
The Temperature.