 They experienced great success, in less than half an hour they had defeated nearly hundred men under Captain Fetterman, who had been cleverly drawn out of the fort by a ruse.Just before the battle, Red Cloud called for the Lakotas' most powerful "half-man," a hermaphrodite who was believed to have special powers, to give advice from the butte overlooking the proposed ambush site.The half-man rode on his pony in a crazed manner four times between the warriors gathered on the butte and Lodge Trail Ridge, each time gathering more "soldiers" into his hands in a prophetic manner.