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Seven Anonymous Warrior's
Story of the Battle
Sioux and Cheyenne accounts of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Headquarters U. S. Military Station, Standing Rock, D. T., July 24, 1876.

To the Assistant Adjutant General Department of Dakota, Saint Paul, Minn.

Sir:

I respectfully report the following as having been derived from seven Sioux Indians just returned from the hostile camp [July 21st] some of whom were engaged in the battle of June 25th with the Seventh Cavalry [Battle of the Little Bighorn, or Battle of the Greasy Grass].

The agent of course makes no distinction between them and the other Indians at the agency. He sent them word to keep quiet and say nothing. To the other Indians he sent or delivered personally the instruction that they must not tell the military of the return of Indians from the hostile camp, nor circulate reports of operations in the late fight.

The Indian account is as follows: The hostiles were celebrating their greatest of religious festivals -- the sun dance -- when runners brought news of the approach of cavalry. The dance was suspended and a general rush -- mistaken by Custer, perhaps, for a retreat -- for horses, equipments and arms followed. Major Reno first attacked the village at the south end and across the Little Bighorn. Their narrative of Reno's operations coincides with the published accounts: how he was quickly confronted, surrqunded; how he dismounted, rallied in the timber, remounted and cut his way back over the ford and up the bluffs with considerable loss; and the continuation of the fight for some little time, when runners arrived from the north end of the village, or camp, with the news that the cavalry had attacked the north end of the same -- three or four miles distant. The Indians about Reno had not...

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