For a time they made a stubborn resistance, but no eight hundred Indians, or twice that number, for that matter, could make a successful stand against such veteran and fearless fighters as the Fifth Cavalry.

They soon came to that conclusion themselves and began a running retreat for the Red Cloud Agency.
For thirty-five miles, over the roughest kind of ground, we drove them before us.

Soon they were forced to abandon their spare horses and all the equipment they had brought along.

Despite the imminent risk of encountering thousands of other Indians at the Agency, we drove our late adversaries directly into it.

No one in our command had any assurance that the Indians gathered there had not gone on the warpath, but little difference that made to us.