battalion behind us. We found a tepee like the one in which we are now
sitting, as we went along, and found two dead Sioux inside. Then the main
command came up to us. We all stopped at the fork of the Little Reno
Creek. Custer split up his command at this point, and told Reno to follow
the creek down, which is now called Reno Creek. Then we crossed over the
ridge. I came down with Custer as far as the creek; then he gave me a
message to take to Reno. I did not know the import of the messsage. I
brought the answer back from Reno to Custer. While I was delivering the
last message, Reno was fighting his battle, but it was not very fierce,
and when I got to Custer with the message he was fighting at the mouth of
the creek. Then Custer told me to go and save my life. I made a circle
around, and I found that my ammunition was getting low. I found a dead
Sioux. I took his ammunition and gun and horse, and got out. I stayed
near where the dead Sioux was until the fight was pretty fierce. I went
up on a high butte to the east of the battlefield where I could see the
fight. When I got on the high hill I looked back, and saw that Custer was
the last man to stand. After that I rushed over the hill and hid in the
brush. The next morning about five or six o'clock I was at General
Terry's camp and reported. General Terry called his officers about him.
I could not speak English and there were no interpreters there, so I took
the grass and piled it all up in a heap, then I took my fingers and
scattered it wide apart, and attempted in this way to show General Terry
that the soldiers were all killed. Then General Terry gave me a dispatch.
I was very tired and did not want to go, but I had to take this dispatch
from General Terry, to Reno at the packtrain. Reno gave me a dispatch to
take back to Terry, while they were burying the dead soldiers. Then
another dispatch was given me to take to the head command at the
steamboat. I felt sorry and depressed that I should never again see
Custer.

[The Reno Battlefield]

The Reno Battlefield

THE STORY OF GOES-AHEAD--CUSTER SCOUT

I was under General Terry at the Yellowstone at the mouth of the Big Horn.
There was a boat at the mouth of the Big Horn. The steamboat had a
pontoon bridge reaching to the shore. The soldiers came off the boat and
joined General Terry's command. Then General Ter