'90, 9 A.M.
`` Good find , that , Geordie , '' grinned Connell , as his comrade sat pencilling a brief despatch to the major , while three of the men , with liberal sprinklings from their canteens and brisk fanning with their hats , were striving to revive the collapsed wagoner . `` I need his story , '' said our plains-wise Pops . `` Pull him to , if possible , '' and then went on with his writing . `` SOUTH FORK , WHITE RIVER , '' _ October _ -- ' 90 , 9 A.M. '' _ Lieutenant H.H. Willard , Adjutant Detachment -- th Cavalry . _ `` SIR , -- I have to report that we have just intercepted a small party of Sioux driving off a four-horse wagon , which contains eleven Henry and Winchester rifles and at least ten thousand rounds of ball cartridges . This is probably the ` outfit ' of the fugitives who reached bivouac this morning , reporting it burned and their comrades killed . `` One of the latter , at least , is alive , but we found him unconscious , although unharmed .