ten o'clock
Then the Sioux Chief rose `` to find his young men , '' and his party rode away . It was nine the next morning when the sentry discovered a considerable body of mounted Indians in the northeast , riding rapidly toward the Fort . Had it been from the south , he would scarcely have made a report . Before ten o'clock they had arrived . They numbered about fifty warriors in full war paint . They were singing their war songs , and fastened to their coup sticks were one or two terribly fresh-looking scalps . At their head was Red Cloud .