To our left, on the opposite side of the creek, two or three parties of Indians were coming in, laden with buffalo meat.
"This is no place for us, Lieutenant," said I."I think we have business at the camp which must be attended to as soon as possible." "I agree with you," he returned.

"The quicker we get there the better." We came down the hill as fast as we could and joined our men.
Lieutenant Ward hurriedly wrote a note and sent it to General Carr by a corporal.

As the man started away on a gallop Ward said: "We will march, slowly back until we meet the troops.

I think General Carr will soon be here." A minute or two later we heard shots in the direction taken by our courier.

Presently he came flying back around the bend of the creek, with three or four Indians in hot pursuit.