The Indians, seeing that I was a little distance from my pony, now came charging down upon me from the hill, in the hope of cutting me off.
General Merritt had witnessed the duel, and, realizing the danger I was in, ordered Colonel Mason with Company K to hurry to my rescue.

This order came none too soon.

Had it been given one minute later two hundred Indians would have been upon me, and this present narration would have had to be made by some one else.

As the soldiers came up I swung the war-bonnet high in the air and shouted: "The first scalp for Custer!" It was by this time clear to General Merritt that he could not ambush the Indians.

So he ordered a general charge.