Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-14

has befriended her since her widow
hood, and has taken her into his fam.
lily and cared for her, and fed her and
her child.
BY the BY, this Little Knife is con.
siderable ofa savage. In his younger
days he was one OF the most villainous
Indians on the plains, but he has
braced up Of late, and is now spoken
Of as one Of the best old men around
Wood Mountain.
Sitting Bull had very little to dc
with the big battle" said he to me
Sunday. He was on a butte (hill on
the flank Of the Indian camp. As the
soldiers fell off their horses or were
killed, he would send the young men
out to drive the horses into our camp.
Toward the close Of the fight he was
in the camp, keeping it in order and
locking after the women and chill
dren."
"Who was the chief in command,
1 Little Knife y
There was none. The head men
commanded the men under them, but
there was no general chief"
How many men did the Indians
lose ?"
The old man named each one and
counted them on his fingers. AS |
cant spell the names | won't try to
give them.
There we're thirty-two Indians ac-
tually killed" he replied.
How many soldiers?"
Il can't say a great many"
Did your people get many trO-
phies?'
we got 200 guns and pistols. We
also got two horns [bugles] and a
flag"
Almost every Unea pa pa | have
seen is armed with a breech- loading
needle carbine captured at the fight.
| can't get any trace of the bugles F;
but the standard was made up into a
shirt for a young buck-the red and
white stripes running perpendicular,
and the blue field hanging over the
t~atfrail.
Were there any scalps taken, Lit
tie Knife?'
mo, no one. We scalped nobody {;
we came away as fast as we could"
"How many soldiers did you kill?''
None. | never killed a white
man in my life lied the old repro
bate. Il have only killed Crow In
dams"
Are you on the war-path now with
the Americans
mo. | am a warrior my heart is
strong | am brave but don't want
war. am tired of fighting. | am
not willing to 90 back to my country,
even if the Americans will let me. |
don't want to give up my guns and
horses. | want to hunt but | will
hurt no mau unless he hurts me"
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE
New York telegram
Father Genin, a priest, who has
llabored among the various tribes com
posing the great Sioux nation, in the
Northwest, is now in this city. He
publishes a manifesto from Sitting
Bull to all just and sensible citizens
in ~vindicatinn of the Sioux Indians.
Father Gepin gives the following ac-
count Of the battle of the Rosebud, at
which Custer fell. 1t was given to
him by Sitting Bull.
The Custer command was part of a
force that had been sent out to exter-
inmate his people. For eight days he
had retreated from the advancing
white men, and then being wearied, be
set up a mock village, left his fire:
lighted, and arranged a number o.
effgy Indians SO as to deceive the
whites. lie then gathered his braves,
and under the cover of the hills t.
the south of the Rosebud, he marched
to intercept Clusters advance. liz
did not wish to fight, so he sent out 4
messenger with a flag of truce, who
was shot down. After seeing thi,
man fall from his horse, he called foI
the blood that was to be shed.
Custer g4lloped on toward the emp
y village, and Sitting Bull closed il
behind him and to tGe right and left
What then happened is an old stor.
now. Father Ge9ip has with hin
the tOmahawk with which sUuster
was finally dispatched. The Fathe.
will 60 to France to-day, but viii
return to the Sioux in about feu.
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