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"Reno
proved incompetent and Benteen showed his indifference – I will not use the uglier words that have often been in my mind. Both failed Custer and he had to fight it out alone."
Little Bighorn veteran William Taylor, letter to Lieutenant Godfrey, February 20, 1910
BATTLE OF THE WASHITA
KNOWN FATALITIES
80 Cheyenne warriors, warchiefs or civilians have been named during the researchs on the Battle of the Washita
source : Jerome Greene, Washita: The Army and the Southern Cheyennes, University of Oklahoma Press, pages 212-214
In these 80 Cheyennes, these people (including women with pistols and arrows) were killed (the others escaped or were prisoners):
27 warriors (+ 100 unnamed)
13 warchiefs (all named)
1 woman (11 unnamed)
6 children (all unnamed)
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