After the battle, the hostiles moved to Bear Butte in the Black Hills, and early in March, the bands separated, Spotted Tail and his Brules moving east of the Hills, while the Arapahoes and Cheyennes, joined the Northern Cheyennes under Red Cloud, on Powder river.

In April, Spotted Tail, Little Thunder, and sixty lodges of Brules, came in to Fort Laramie and voluntarily surrendered, and according to Hyde, he should have been with the Indians that were being taken to Julesburg, and Kearney, at the time of the outbreak on Horse Creek. I do not find any part that he took in the battle, and perhaps he was opposed to the action, as many Indians were. Hyde also says the Indians at first concealed their women and children in a willow thicket back of their lodges. I have been unable to locate the thicket. After the last charge, says Hyde: "The soldiers gathered up the mutilated bodies of Fouts and his men, and pulled out for Camp Shuman" (Fort Mitchell).

After over fifty years, George L. Wilcox, no relation, that I can find, of the captain, was employed by the government to disinter the bodies and remove them to the government cemetery at Cottonwood. He quite easily located the grave of Captain Fouts and a soldier at Fort Mitchell, and after an extended search he found the two other soldiers, who had been buried on the battlefield. Later,- two other soldiers were disinterred at Fort Mitchell. All now rest at the beautiful cemetery a few miles east of the city of North Platte.