In his book, My Life on the Plains, Custer described it in these words: "Each body was pierced by from 20 to 50 arrows, and the arrows were found as the savage demons had left them, bristling in the bodies."
Custer detailed the scene of the battle in his book, My Life on the Plains. He wrote that each victim bore between 20 and 50 arrow wounds, with the arrows still protruding from their bodies, as if left by savage demons.