"Custer's Last Hour"
“ Custer's Last Hour ” [MANUSCRIPT], Written and illustrated by Antonio LaMotta (US Army Illustrator, 81-E), ©1980 3) Around 3pm, June 25, 1876, Custer’s crow-indian guide's returned with a news that: chief Sitting-Bull and chief Crazy-Horse’s hiding place is about several miles ahead…. 7) …at about 3:10pm, they observed some warriors ahead (less than two dozens) that were grazing their horses… 9) Custer immediately dispatched Major Reno to subdue the band of warriors… and Reno deployed the formation: about 89-horses wide and 2-horses deep. …Without Cpt Bentene's 300 more mounted-soldiers, with the baggage train, about 20 minutes behind. 11) …while Custer took the right, crossed the shallow ford of the Little Bighorn, and raced up to circumvent the potential position of the village… with his cavalry of about 215 mounted soldiers. 13) Reno followed the band of warriors over the ridge and down. As Reno’s cavalry of light-gray horses descended over the ridge, they obs...