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4WAR-PATII AND BIVOUAC,
   "One sees at a distance a dead horse lying on the plain
near the river, and, upon a nearer approach, the gleaming
white slkin of a dead and naked cavalry soldier, the body cut
and mangled beyond description, is brought into view."
   According to the statement of this officer, which was
published in most of the newspapers in the latter part of
July, 1876, Lieutenant Bradley, of the 7th Infantry, killed in
the succeeding year at the battle of the Big Hole, was among
the first who discovered the remains of Custer and his men,
while Lieutenant Jacobs, of the same regiment, was among
the first to ascertain the condition of Reno and his com-
mand. The operations of the battalion of the 2d Cavalry,
which accompanied Gibbon's infantry, were directed by
Maj. James S. Brisbin. The fact here stated was uninten-
tionally overlooked in the account of the movements of
General Gibbon's column in Part I.
   The scout, Charles Reynolds, who generally accompanied
Custer, was left behind with Reno, and, on the latter's re-
treat to the bluffs, was cut off and massacred. He fought
heroically to the last, and did not die unavenged. He was
to Custer's column what Gruard was to that of Crook.
                 MISCELLANEOUS.
               THE SIBLEY SCOUTING PARTY.
   The scouting party commanded by Lieut. F. W. Sibley,
of Troop E, 2d Cavalry, July 6-9, 1876, was made up of
)iclled men from different troops of the 2d Cavalry, together
with a few scouts and volunteers, as follows: Sergeants G.
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