Chapter 101
The Sergeant’s Gang struck his camp the day before. Enraged, the Sioux fought off the raiders and pursued them, slaying a large number of renegades at the cost of three warriors. Stone Knife now held two prisoners and a score of corpses lay strewn about his territory, many of them white men. One of the captives was a ruffian who wore the blue coat with faint marks where there had once been three stripes. Stone Knife’s young men wanted to kill the prisoners and throw their carcasses to the dogs, but their misco sought Teacher’s counsel on the matter.
After I related what happened at the trial of the three men we turned over to the army, Stone Knife agreed to bring the two captives to the Mead so I could accompany him and two of his warriors to the fort with the prisoners. To my surprise, Lone Eagle insisted on going with us.