I just wish I could be.

It'd sort o' take th' weight off th' awfulness of what I remember as what happened, an' what I can't tell right 'cause I ain't got eddication an' brains enough.
"Th' Old Man, he split us up, him takin' companies C, E, F, I, and L, givin' Benteen four companies an' Reno three companies.

He ordered Reno t' go t' th' left an' cross th' Little Big Horn an' attack, th' Injuns from th' rear.

Benteen he told t' go straight ahead, an' he himself took th' right.

I was with Reno, an' I saw personal what he was up ag'inst.
We crossed th' Little Big Horn an' went right into what seemed a million warriors.
"I was right alongside of Lieutenant Hodgson, Lieutenant McIntosh, an' Doctor De Wolf when they fell, an' I see Charlie Reynolds--he'd refused t' go with th' Old Man--put up a fight that if I was a artist, an' c'd draw pictures, I c'd make a fortune puttin' it on paper.