The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-25

there no later than the expiration CT
the time for which your troops are "a
toned, unless in the meantime YOU re-
ceive further orders"
After sleeping about two hours that
same night we got fresh horses and
Custer started us with instructions to
go to the east of Tullock's fork, and to
follow it down to its mouth at Tullocks
creek, and to keep sharp lookout for
any signs of Indians, and to report to
him again that night il possible. This
we did, seeing nothing but the trail of a
small war party going toward the Big
Horn.
We had been rolled in our blankets
but few hours when Charlie Reynolds
and half-breed Sioux scout, Bill Cross,
came in with a report which cause
Custer to send for us again. After
getting fresh horses we were given a
dispatch to carry to Colonel Gibbons
command. We reached the river, which
we crossed by the aid of our horses
tails, with our clothes tied so as to
keep them as dry as possible. We
reached the command that day. The
next morning, after eating our en-
balmed turkey and bareback, was sent
back to the supply train, which was still
at Powder river, and my companion
was sent to join Benteen's command.
He was with the latter during his en-
gagement with the Indians and he gives
Colonel Benteen great credit for brav-
cry. The colonel. he says, when the
men behind the breastworks ran short
of ammunition, with his own hands car
ried it and threw it over to them, being
all the time exposed to the deadly fire
of the enemy.
In "a hours l reached the supply train
and was afforded another opportunity
to fill up and get some sleep. On the
a d,r
Knife, coming in badly scared, and he
seemed to think that Custer had been
killed, although he had not seen him.
Another scout, George Mullgan, and
myself had been sent out to find Gus
ter
We had not gone far when we met
Bill Cross and eight Rec Indian scouts.
They had few Sioux ponies which
they said they had captured They
told us that Custer and his command
were killed, but they did not seem to
know much it. They could not tell
us just where the fight took place.
hence we took little stock in their
story. We learned afterwards, how
ever, that when Custer made the charge
they gathered up the Sioux horses that
had strayed out on the hills, and pulled
out for a more healthy climate. Scout
Reynolds had the same privilege, but
chose to go into the battle, and was
afterward found in the same deadly
circle with General Custer with many
empty shells around them to count
their coos for them.
Reynolds well knew of Clusters abil-
ity to deal with the Indians against
fearful odds, for he had previously
fought with him. He also knew the
odds he had to face that day, as we
spoke of it when we last met and he
proved by his actions that he could
not have been aware of any wrong
doing on the part of the general when
he, of his own free will, followed him
that day.
After leaving Cross and the Rec
scouts we met Curley, the Grow In
dian scout, who was with Custer at
the beginning of the fight. That pock-
marked villain and liar, Rain-in-the-
Face, says Curley is a liar; that he
was not there: but I know for a fact
that Rain-in-the-Face had never met
Curley, nor to the best of my knowl-
edge has he seen him since. l have
heard Rain talk and he will never get
into the happy hunting grounds If
veracity is to be his passport.
When we met Curley he was SO badly
scared that l doubt if he would have
known himself. He had a Sioux med
icine or war pony in full paint and