news that custer is dead along with every man of >> cigarette dangling out of his mouth but >>> that's rielly got to help the classroom discipline. that's got to really help. i'm sorry, i digress. he had a red silk shirt topped with a beaver sombrero and certainly was dressed for his role that day. he quickly located the cheyenne village, but he returned to find the cavalry camp and the cheyennes had been spotted nearby. he reported to meredith up atop a slight hill after overlooking the valley called war bonnet creek, also called hat creek. scouts formed directly from the valley of the fifth cavalry and marritt order carr to saddle up the regiment and get red for action and in the distance came a supply train, and the cheyenne scouts were heading for it and two dispatch riders two dispatch riders were coming from the supply train toward his command and he could see they were going to get cut off by the cheyenne's and he asked them for permission to engage with his scouts. as he joined the regiment, he said, go ahead. the lieutenant was to watch from the hill and send in the scouts before the