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of their tribe in exchange for Rain-in-the-Face, for he was a distinguished warrior and very brave. The march homeward was one of constant tension for they were ever expecting attack.
Custer questioned Rain-in-the-Face and succeeded in getting him to tell how he shot the old veterinary surgeon. He did not die instantly, and the Indian used a stone mallet to brain him. He then told of the younger man, Baliran, holding out his hand in peace, for neither of the murdered men had been armed, and how he shot him, first with a gun and then with arrows. The officers could hardly restrain themselves as they led him to the guardhouse.
During Rain-in-the-Face?s imprisonment he was visited by a constant stream of Indians, many of importance.
It had been noted that the grain had been disappearing from some of the forage buildings at Fort Lincoln, which Custer established, having been carried over the ice to nearby Bismark. Knowing that he had 90 jurisdiction in that city, he was assisted bv Lieutenant Carland, formerly an attorney, in gathering evidence that would stick. One day in Spring, just before the ice broke lip, the entire regiment was ordered out under arms and headed for Bismark. The men and officers were as amazed as the good people of Bismark for none knew what it was all about. Custer indicated the houses and upon his insistance the doors were
RELAXATION. Though cavalrymen are known as heavy drinkers and gamblers, Custer wrote to Libbie late in August, that there had been no drunkenness or cardplaying on the trip. This party appears sober enough. Note the two stars and stripes guidons in the foreground. Illingworth photo courtesy of the South Dakota Historical Society.
OFFICERS OF THE BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION OF 1 874. 1. Capt. Win. Ludlow; 2. Capt. Geo. Yates; 3. 1st Lieut. Tom Custer; 4. 1st Lieut. Donald McIntosh; 5. 2nd Lieut. Geo. D. Wallace; 7. 1st Lt. James Calhoun; 8. 2nd Lieut. J. M. Harrington; 15. Major Geo. Forsyth; 16. Lt. Col. Geo. A. Custer; 16!. a professor; 17. 1st Lieut. Tom Mc-Dougall; 18. Bloody Knife; 19. Major jos. Tilford; 21. 2nd Lieut. Fred Grant; 22. Capt. Miles Moylan; 25. 2nd Lieut. Charles Vamum; 29. 1st Lieut. Algernon Smith; 30. Capt. Owen Hale; 33. Capt. Fred Benteen; 34. 1st Lieut. Edw. S. Godfrey; 35. 1st Lieut. Frank Gibson; 36. 2nd Lieut. Benjamin Hodgson. Balance unknown. Courtesy of the Custer Battlefield Museum.