New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-07
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Treasury.
THE WAR PATH.

General Custer Attacks an Indian camp
with Five Companies of HIS Regiment
Himself, his Omcers and N1eu all
Killed-seventeen Commissioned ON.
GERS and BIS Men of the Seventh
Cavalry-Major Reno with seven Com.
panies Surrounded-General Gibbon
with the Seventh Infantry Come 70
their Relief.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-There has been no
official account of the following disaster,
which seems well confirmed. General Custer
found the Indian camp of twenty-dv lodges
on Little Horn and Immediately attacked
with five companies, charging into the thick
cot of the camp. Nothing is known Of the
operations of this detachment after the
charge, as they were only traced by their
dead.
General Custer. his two brothers, his
nephew and his brother-in-law, with about
300 others, we're killed.
The Indians got the arms of the KILLED
soldiers.
Seventeen commissioned officers were
killed.
The whole Custer family died at the hsad
of the column.
Major Reno attacked the lower part Of
the camp with seven remaining conpAn-
niee.
The Indians surrounded Reno's seven
dav. away from water. General Gibbong
command then came in sight. and the In
dams broke camp and lett in the night the
remnant of the Seventh Cavalry and Glib
bous' command returning to the mouth OF
Little Horn, where there is steamboat.
Only thirty-one were wounded. Two hun
dred and seven men are buried IN ono
place.
Another account says the battle was
fought on the twentv.dfth ultim0, thirty or
forty miles below Little Horn. General
Custer attacked village Of $500 to 4OUO
warriors on one side, Colonel Reno on tho
other General Custer, fifteen officers and
every man Of the five companies were
killed. Reno retreated under protection OF
the reserves. The whole number OF killed
was 3l5. General Gibbons joined Rene.
The dead were much mutilated.
The War once Crowded with News
Seekers.
The Secretary Of War, General Sherman
and General Sheridan are st the centennial
war Office, which is crowded with people
who are anxious to hear the fate OF rela-
tives in the Indian country, but can learn
nothing.
Lieutenant Crittenden Among the Killed.
General Crittenden has been informed of
his sons death by Colonel Ruggles. OF Cen
eral Terry's staff. Young Crittenden Was
lieutenant of the Twentieth Infantry
A Consultation With the President.
General Hancock, Secretary Chandler
and Postmaster General Jewell were with
the President to-day, in consultation over
Indian affairs.
The Earlier r ,ports Confirmed.
The War Department received this after
noon confrmatory reports of the newspa-
per accounts, which gave them the first in
| timation of the disaster. The following
was received this afternoon from General
Sheridan's headquarters at Chicago, signed
by Adjutant General Drum:
Dispatches from General Terry, dated at
| his camp, mouth of Big Horn, confirm the
| newspaper reports of q fight on the twenty.
| fifth of June on Little Big Horn and OF
| General Clusters death.
| General Terry has fallen back to his
| present camp. l have sent full dispatches
| to the Lieutenant General, who will probs-
bly, communicate them. have not yet re-
ceived General Terry's report Of the action
or list of the casualties.