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Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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g-adjutant. The battalion of Captain Benteen, containing troops H, Captain Benteen andLieutenant Gibson; D, Captain Weir and Lieutenant Edgerly; and K, LieutenantGodfrey. The battalion under Custer himself, containing troops I, Captain Keogh and Lieu-tenant Porter; F, Captain Yates and Lieutenant Reily; C, Captain Tom Custer andLieutenant Harrington; E, Lieutenants Smith and Sturgis; L, Lieutenants Calhounand Crittenden; Dr. Lord as surgeon, and Lieutenant Cook, the regimental adjutant.The pack train, under Lieutenant Mathey, was escorted by Troop B, CaptainMcDougall. Renos detachment advanced into the valley along the bed of the little creek,followed by Custer and the pack train; Benteen advanced farther to the left, towardsa high bluff, from where he was to scan the front, and, in case he saw the enemy, toreport immediately. At the place where the regiment was divided nobody could anticipate the ex-tremely difficult nature of the ground. After struggling over several lines of bluffs
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Q Z< oo CO 5: UJ H</) O Q ZUJ 215 — without seeing a sign of the enemy Benteen was forced to join the trail just m frontof the pack train and follow the main body. Renos advance guard had in the meantime reached a burning tepee, chasingsome Indians who had fired it. In the tepee was the body of a trooper killed inGeneral Crooks battle at the Rosebud. Custer sent an order to Reno to hurry for-ward and charge the village, and the whole force would support him. Renotrotted ahead until he reached the river. Crossing it he sent word to Custer thatthe Indians were in front of him in large numbers. After moving forward abouttwo miles Reno dismounted his men, advancing them as a line of skirmishers, withhis Ree scouts to the left. Two horses ran away with their hapless riders, carryingthem right into the hostiles lines, whence a demoniacal howl arose, leaving nodoubt as to their fate. Custer had in the meantime swerved to the right, thus putting the river and aline of high bluffs betw

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