Great Sioux War of 1876 Col. George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry were ordered out from the main Dakota Column to scout the Rosebud and Big Horn river valleys. On June 25, 1876, they encountered a large village on the west bank of the Little Bighorn. The US troops were seriously beaten in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and nearly 270 men were killed, including Custer. Custer split his forces just prior to the battle and his immediate command of five cavalry companies was annihilated without any survivors. Two days later, a combined force consisting of Colonel Gibbon's column, along with Terry's headquarters
Battle of Slim Buttes June 17, 1876, beat off the Indian attack, driving the Sioux northward as contemplated in Sheridan's plan. From that point of view it was regarded as a victory. Crook had seriously wounded men to care for, His supplies of food and ammunition were used up. Therefore, he fell back to Goose Creek to reorganize." Custer's 7th Cavalry regiment was a major component of General Terry's column. Custer ascended the Little Big Horn in search of an Indian village and attacked on June 26, 1876. "No one had any idea that all of the Indians would be found in one spot