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Show Five Thousand Against Custer. 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 killvd. 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 tight 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. |