| Show lilt 1111 MASSACRE r wo we dirre ji ours on riol olics of 0 a lope hope that theft I 1 is inome toma mistake in ID tho faful wo published yeb genes genets I 1 ray Cu custead ille companies ot of the I 1 Seris nth unla united S slate tat wiry by tb abo sioux the rc aft ress tilda tbt u ejof z scout taylor Ty lora a lot self lavel no are who seems to hive sti the a coca of cf the he tragedy elioe abo i ii reported r to lave hava occurred oo on t mhd alt thirty or borly relm below th river and miles franf rott ellis both till thi Dlen montana tana jid sail llio aba itaw ro ra port abo catastrophe but both eboth jour j nils nila derive their information from the I 1 sell simo minority authority tho the coon eopal tylor taylor chii li that it a combined combi aed attack was vu mailo made upon la a sioux village by the seventh vv valry with qan a gibbon b within a diya dy 4 match march 0 gen n I 1 custer caster with five companies tho indian position on side while maor reno will diS remaining 8 even eyan at tho the enemy at point from custers Ou confident movement in assailing tho the strongest position of 0 tho the village it t boull seem ehst he ha expected aa eny easy victory Tic torr A lathing assault by three hundred troopers would bo be apt pt to produce a panic upon an undisciplined and the aln ol of tho the attack evil oatly was wa for fijor aitto it no to catch tho tagi 1091 tiTe tives aa they tied flad from their As an and dillos ahns strike the tha indians a i telling blow ani ana gala adessi in aisy victory Tic tory but bat tho the hili try tary strategy wit dread dreadfully rully at fault artom riom the ho two tiro thousand Iha osand longos Is as many bracca issued out 10 to lo poured in a murderous fire irom all cireo eions the too fee being arons cd custers dorco app alpean can to have haro been beca help in heir tianne and were shot down or dragged from their vor h lies and their throats cat without irit hoot offering effectual resistance or taking to 0 o blight everli man belonging to tho the fiyo five companies coto panics says bays the Boic nias VMS was allol du during ring this while wo a aro to to top lop poso poo major reno aeno w WM as fully fally employed with another portion of tile tho occupants of 0 tho the lodal lq for as toon coon us as casters men were disposed or of they all upon their aloit surviving far TiTio on an atom and surrounded them this is if an unlikely story etory for the troops were not entrenched acid wo we cannot suppose that tho sioux with improved fire arms and their loo fee six to one should hite have held them prisoners ta an entire day ind and night might ua nn til lil gibbon arrived armed with reinforce meats to 10 release them from their peril from tho the bravery and enterprise of the luc sioux as ag hewn on oil ono or two aiona during the tha present war wo cannot belette that that large force of warrior airrion rion numbers numbering ing from 2530 2550 to 1000 would have bate allow allowed e a R a handful ol of troops not nol over buur strong to remain in kepote tor for twenty tour four hours when the hid jast in ia dispatch ki ing a contingent nearly as strong ts as tho force they held at their mercy the creater portion or tho the savages tho the helena J us na ought fought on horseback this it is perfectly incredible A surprise itta A in ia made upon the indgin encampment by two of troops under experienced ind and capa capable lle oom mandere ana yet the movements of the latter are ace to 00 dilatory bad inefficient that th tho 0 indians hato timo time to hunt their i tos and turn upon their in ia such overwhelming r that one ona a at 11 party is u to a mao man and the he other parly ii mada a yet wodro wo aro assured that our troops fought like ligere 11 what evidence Ovi dence havo live we ire ol of this des fon 04 a tho the battleground battle ground 11 says mya the DOz coican eralia on the authority 0 of f the sea t taylor ot at course coone looked 06 ked like a slaughter pon pen as 09 it really wis 39 be being ing ji in a narrow ravine this certainly bonn taunja 18 the indian camp aris to lau bouc jailie long there must have been a vt tut eit extent t of open pasture land to subsist the thousands of 0 horses ahat that would belong to such a largo of in diarus ana aad yet ouster custer tho the digging beneral and ana indian figh lighter tor is ia so BO inept as to himself to be 19 drawn ioto into a slaughter slaught er pen pea a narrow raving ravine where chero lis hui betrayed troopers aci warp shot at from RU all bridei in ia tho M of a bh A battad or switched matched from their hersca borses AS helpless help lees as turtles thu this very improbable story infelise in filise tile the hope in our breast that it is not true custer las has experienced reverses revera enough before to have taught him elation caution at medicine bolge creek lo ho dispatched patched di major maior elliot gad and it a score boore of troopers troop cra to reconnoitre the arapaho Ar apih camp but those sturdy y eava ca med tho the whole detachment and for a weli their bodies jay laynor it I 1 buried bur aed upon the snow enow the daring savages rendering any oy a attempt t to recover the alaia soldiers cra unsafe la tho tha first place it see ms that so no jar largo ao a hambor ot at fighting sio ax las a is ig mentioned m in the tha dispatch elio oll bo be found together then custer caster would bev cr hav etc c attacked his hia too fee selecting t he bo error eat point lor for asmat in ia agnor buoo of bil enem strength com mon prudenco would laro have slig get J the lio propriety of deferring the attack until gibben was waa within sup supporting 9 distance bat tho the rolica i if fought As aa re ff ce botea in ID tho the dispatch wee vis an ill 0 1 gued blundering move wat bat find the gielster II ELSter inflicted upon our irlas arms is ii duo doo to a rashness nesa that amounts to 10 criminality we are forced to the that be egory 15 is untrue I 1 or that if the tra liels lly occurred its details eely ete not asea bae 3 correctly carroc ly told |
