Field Hospital
The only surviving doctore, Assistant Surgeon Henry R. Porter, collected the wounded and set up an improvised field hospital at the site now marked in the depression between here and the memorial monument. Many of Reno's men had been wounded in the valley fight and retreat, and Indian bullets were taking their toll as other men were hit along the line.
"Corporal (George) Lell...was fatally wounded (in the abdomen) and dragged to the hospital. He was dying, and knew it. 'Lift me up boys,' he said to some of the men, 'I want to see the boys again before I go.' So they held him up in a sitting position where he could see his comrades in action...then they laid him down and he died soon after...I will never forget Corporal Lell."
Pvt. Charles Windolph, H Company