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Show Flve Thousand Against Caster. . There is a student at the Carlisle Indian In-dian school whose father was a leader lead-er in the battle of the Little Big Horn, where Gen. Custer and his entire command com-mand . were killed. Some authorities tell us that' 277 men fell in that awful massacre and' none lived to tell the tale. " The? opposing Indian force is set down at about 1,200: This student says his father informed him that there-" were no less than 5,000 Indians Indi-ans in the battle. Nine thousand "tame" Indians were settled on surrounding sur-rounding reservations, and many of these slipped away in the night time to join Sitting Bull for a raid, returning return-ing under cover of darkness to their homes. Nearly 4,000 were with him when Custer made his fatal error. New York Press. |