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Reno's Retreat
Looking down the ravines toward the Little Bighorn River, you can see where Major Marcus Reno led Companies A, G and M back across the river in retreat from where he earlier attacked the southern end of the Indian encampment. Hundreds of warriors counterattacked and ouflanked Reno's men, forcing them first into the timber and then routed them here.
The defense line at this position was occupied by Capt. Thomas H. French's M Company. McDougall's B Company defended this area on June 26, when French was summoned to support Benteen.
"We were not very well entrenched, as I recall that I used my butcher knife to cut the earth loose and throw a mound of it in front of me upon which to rest my carbine...a bullet struck the corner of this mound, throwing so much dirt into my eyes that I could scarcely see for an hour or more...while lying face down on the ground, a bullet tore off the heel of my left boot as effectively as though it had been sawed off!"
Pvt. William C. Slaper, M Company
Not all of Slaper's comrades were so lucky:
"A soldier named (Pat) Golden was...beside me. We had been talking at intervals during the battle that afternoon, and when the fighting stopped shortly after dark, I started to talk to him again. He didn't answer as I rattled on, and at last when I reached out my hand and touched his head, it was covered with blood."
Pvt. Edward Pigford, M Company