![]() Both Brennan and Fitzgerald turned their horses toward the rear, when they had gone two miles beyond the lone teepee. Cavalry men dismount and fight on foot except when a charge is made, but when a dismount is ordered, number four remains on his horse, numbers, one, two, and three dismount and hand their bridle reins to number four who holds the horses, while they deploy as skirmishers or as otherwise directed. The men composing the four with myself were Fitzgerald, Brennan, and Watson, and although composing one of the sets of fours that entered into action with Custer, not one of us ever reached the battlefield which proved fatal to Custer and his men. ![]() Each man, commencing at the head of the company calls out in turn his number one, two, three, four, and so these are repeated until the company is all numbered into sets of fours. IN THE MORNING before mounting the companies form in single lines. ![]() Peter Thompson, photographed after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. ![]()
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