. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. cating the enemyMajor Reno withthree troops was assigned to the advance and ordered to attack,and advised that the whole command would support him. This was before reach-ing the ford and before General Custer divined the situation as it later gave these orders on first reaching the open valley, on seeing the Indianvillages, expecting no doubt to follow Reno, considering the possible flight of theIndians south toward the mountains or northward into the Bad Lands, expectingonly a running fight and that they would not m.
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. cating the enemyMajor Reno withthree troops was assigned to the advance and ordered to attack,and advised that the whole command would support him. This was before reach-ing the ford and before General Custer divined the situation as it later gave these orders on first reaching the open valley, on seeing the Indianvillages, expecting no doubt to follow Reno, considering the possible flight of theIndians south toward the mountains or northward into the Bad Lands, expectingonly a running fight and that they would not a stand at their villages, expos-ing their women and children to direct attack. Such a conclusion would be in•accord with all previous experience in Indian warfare. Custers immediate command when the massacre occurred consisted of five■companies, the others being appropriately assigned to other parts. Reno was■put to flight. Custer attacked with the five remaining companies. The history of the battle has been written in the light of investigation and. MAIN STREET, BISMARCIv, 1872-3The place was then called Edminton HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 311 research by Gen. E. S. Godfrey in the Century Magazine of January, 1892,and also by others after a thorough investigation of the subject. The matter which follows must be considered in the light of a narrative andas an evidence of enterprise in gathering and publishing matter supposed to befacts, but in the confusion and excitement of the occasion, inaccuracy may haveoccurred in some particulars, though not in the list of casualties. Mark Kelloggs last dispatch to the Bismarck Tribune read: We leave theRosebud tomorrow and by the time this reaches you we will have met and foughtthe red devils, with what result remains to be seen. I go with Custer and will beat the death. He had written of the events of the expedition, of the preparation for themorrow, and of the incidents of personal interest, up to the very moment ofmarching, an
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