Custer and the Sioux, Durnford and the Zulus by Paul Williams

Author:Paul Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-10-12T04:00:00+00:00

Here Custer’s brother-in-law, Lieutenant James Calhoun with Company L, fought a rear-guard action, with Captain Myles Keogh’s Company I held in support immediately to his north along the ridge. Lieutenant Harrington’s Company C was placed on the slope to the west of Calhoun. (Nominal commander Tom Custer was acting as aide to brother George.) Companies E and F continued along the ridge towards Last Stand Hill, while hundreds more warriors swarmed up from the north of the village to cut them off in that direction. Thus Custer was being surrounded on his right and left, the Indians inadvertently forming the “horns of the buffalo,” while those warriors between himself and the village formed the head.

White Bull recalled:

All the Indians were shooting. I saw two soldiers fall from their horses. The soldiers fired back at us from the saddle. They shot so well that some of us retreated to the south, driven out of the ravine. Soon after, the soldiers halted and some got off their horses. By that time the Indians were all around the soldiers, but most of them were between the soldiers and the river, trying to defend the camp and the ford. Several little bunches of Indians took cover where they could, and kept firing at the white men.

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