Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-10-24
rHEDAY THATCUsTERFELL
Citing Bull and Soldier EXCHANGE kemi'
nisccnccs or the Fight. c..


The real facts about the death OF
Gen. Custer -were = brought out q
few DAYS aco at Boston. in AN inter
view between Sitting Bull and Sergeant
John RYAN ofNewton, Mass, VINO
iourht under Ger. Reno in the last
battle between Clusters ReGlnen6 apo
the Indians When Sergeant Ryan WaS
introduced to the chief, sitting pun
showed no disposition TO tax, put
presently Ryan drew rom has poeAcSS
a blood-spattered cavalry guldon ana
asked Sitting Bull whethc: he had ever
seena flaxliISs thai before. The lhdllh
Showed g sudden awakening interest,
eyes" he said.
pol. "yyhen was it, asked Sergeant. yah;
"When we had the fight and kiiled
/ Clusters men, said Sitting BusI thousfr
/ the interpreter, I'VE got u Number OF
/ them AVheredid YOU get II! -
1 seOn the second day oil the hglt, an
swered RYAN. II saw an Indian riding
/ N and down in front OF our lines dis,
ptayinc this nag. Another man ah9
myself who had long range rihes, nrea l
at him repeatedly, and finally droppeqI
him off his horse. When night came l
crawled out and brought the flag IN.
"When we struck your tran, ser
peant RYAN continued, "and just pc
fore the fight, wefound four lodges WILD
dead Indians in them"
i''Who were they?" @ -,
ssFhey were Sioux Shawnee scouts,
replied Sitting Bull, ''killed by men OF
t;en Crooks's command on the Rose
1 bud on juno II. On the first days
FIGHT, do YOU. rccollect an Indian
mounted on; O. black horse who was
larmed with d camp stick an indian
lance) land was cheering and urgngon
his men"
"That was when you were trying 70
break our skirmish line,' SAID Ryan.
"The chief was 200 or,3Oo yards away,
and fired on him number OF times:
Sitting Bull with much merriment)
said: 'That was I. Soon after that
I went to the scene of the fight with
Custer and was not in the battle aftei
that day. l remember when two o.
YOUR Back mules charged down to the
/, water from your camp On the blum
Tbey were loaded with ammunition
land we used that ammunition as well as
whatwe eot from Custer, in the second
davis fight. When I went. to take
charge OF the battlea at the other end o
the valley, where Custer made hls at
tack, 1 left Crazy horse In command
of my young men y no were fighting
YOU and Reno" II
"Was' the fight going on when yor
got. there?" asked Ryan, ~ -,
o"Oh, YES; we had themstirrounded.
g"It has been said that, Rain-in-the
; Face asserted that he; killed Custer
Did herr - ygi 49,. d. 81, -,
"No. There is no truth in it. 81
, many were firing OF. Custer at the SAM
time that no one could tell whethe
he hit hirl-or not" Ain. a. +.
"You are telling the truth there,
said RYAN al was in command OF TIN
detail that. buried Custer otter zen
Terry cahie up. There were o nunioe
of bullets in Clusters body, and he an'
: q newspaper man named kelywer
the onlv ones whose bodies had no
=, been mutilated. Who was it tina
/ crushed the head of Capt, Tom Custer
and what became of the prisoners?
: 81 don't know about that" answer
}. ed Sitting Bull. 'sThe Young men ant
i souaws had to do with that. Their
. we're 4, 1000 warriors and there were Il
the camp from 5000 to 1000 womel
3 and children, and the camp was lou
!: or five miles long, all in the valley @
= theLittle Big Horn" 40
: ] i'How many mendid you have@i
= "Six hundred all told, OF whom 20
q were killed with Custer" -.
: --Fhe two men exchanged many can
:, Observation-Disclosures. Ryan was In Gu:
: ter's regiment OH the plains for &c
'' years, and-often skirmished. with Sit
ting Bull and his tribe when they wcE
on the war path. ~. .,-s.