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"Medicine
Tail Runaway" |
MEDICINE TAIL
RUNAWAY On the afternoon of June 25th 1876, during the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Captain George W. Yates, with the Companies E and F, was ordered by Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, to attack the north end of the Indian Village at the point where Medicine Tail Coulee empties into the Little Bighorn River. A non-commissioned officer of Company E, the famed 38 strong gray horse troop, was seen charging across the river on a runaway horse and into the Indian Village. A body was found near the village on June 28th, 1876, although never positively identified as the missing officer. The fate of the gray horse is unknown. I, however, would like to believe it survived. Source: Custer's Last Campaign by John S. Gray |
