. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . 25th thescouts came in and reported the Indians camping twelve or fourteen miles beyondthe divide in the Little Big Horn Valley. Promptly at 8 the march was again resumed and continued until half-past 10,when the whole command was brought to a halt in a ravine, evidently for thepurpose of escaping detection by th
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . 25th thescouts came in and reported the Indians camping twelve or fourteen miles beyondthe divide in the Little Big Horn Valley. Promptly at 8 the march was again resumed and continued until half-past 10,when the whole command was brought to a halt in a ravine, evidently for thepurpose of escaping detection by the enemy, if such were possible. The Little Big Horn and the valley mentioned were now to the front and left ofthe force; towards the northwest was the river—which is a rapid mountain streamtwenty to forty yards wide, with steep, soft banks. The country north and east of thevalley is a plateau, rough, broken ground with many steep hills and narrow, deepgulches. The divide mentioned above is formed by the Little Chetish front of the command, where it now was, flowed a little creek, in a northwest-erly direction, towards the bend of the Little Big Horn. At that time the creek wasnearly dry, and the trail of the Indians followed its bed down into the valley. — 213. JOHN H. SHINGLE, First Sergeant, Troop I, 3d Cavalry,Born in Philadelpliia, 1842. Custer had gone forward to where the scouts were to scan the valley and obtain,if possible, a view of the enemy. On account of a bluff cutting into the valley fromthe north it was impossible to see all parts from his place of observation, but what he saw strengthened his belief in the correctness of hiscalculation as to the enemys number. But even had hethen had a true conception of the real magnitude of histask he could not have withdrawn. With the hostilesbefore him, and the War Department behind him, therewas only one way: forward. There were then encamped in the valley some 15,000redskins, counting between 2,000 an
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