A Minneconjou, "shooters of the mist," a stranger camped among the Brules, killed the cow, and it was eaten.

On the 19th, Grattan with his twenty-nine men and an interpreter, (a hanger on around forts and camps, a hard drinker, and very boastful) with two cannon, a twelve pound howitzer, and a mountain howitzer, arrived aboul three I'. M. to arrest the Minneconjou. Grattan took a position in the Brule camp about CO yards from the lodge of the Minneconjou, and demanded his surrender.

The braves, estimated at one thousand fighting men, crowded around between the whites and the lodge of the Indian wanted. Tile chief of the Brules asked him to surrender, but he refused, saying he was ready In die and would

die in camp (very natural for one who understood the Indian character and his views on arrest).

The Brule chief renewed his offer to pay for the cow if the officer would retire. Man-afraidof-his-horse went twice from the lodge of the Minneconjou to Grattan, and begged the officer to retire and the cow would be paid for. From Bordeaux's testimony, Grattan felt his position would be ridiculous if he left camp without the prisoner. So he ordered his men to fire on the lodge. One Indian was wounded. The Indians started to rush him then, and he fired his cannon and muskets in a volley. The Bear and a few Indians fell, the Bear mortally wounded.

Grattan and five men were killed around the cannon, and the rest were all cut down within a mile of camp. One soldier, terribly wounded, was picked up by one of the sub-chiefs and kept in his lodge over night, and the next day taken to Bordeaux's trading store and later to the fort, where he died in three or four days.