the pack train, and they comprised the fourth group. Lt. Edward G. Mathey was the officer assigned to be in charge of the pack train and its permanent personnel, but since it had critical supplies for the column, including the column's extra ammunition, Custer ordered one troop to be detached to safeguard it. "Captain McDougall had fallen asleep prior to officer's call and had been the last to report to Adjutant Cooke. As a consequence, McDougall's B Company was assigned to guard Lieutenant Mathey's slow moving pack train." "Some of his [McDougal's] disappointed troopers, doubtful they would see any action, wept at this." At the Reno Court of Inquiry in January 1879, McDougall testified that at about 11a.m. on June 25, on the Divide between the Rosebud and the Little Big Horn, he was ordered by Custer to "take charge of the pack train and serve as a rear guard". When asked about the "effective force" McDougall had "with the pack train that day", McDougall replied, "My company was composed of about 45 men, and there were about 80 men belonging to the pack train, and 5 or 6 civilian packers." Certain personnel and animals had been left with the pack train. Custer's "striker" John Burkman was left with the pack train, along with Custer's second horse Dandy and his two hounds. June 25, order to bring pack train to Custer with all speed On the 25th, as the other three detachments advanced down a small tributary of the Little Bighorn River called Sun Dance Creek (present day Reno Creek) toward the Sioux village in the valley, the mules of the pack train under McDougall's charge lagged behind as they usually did when the column was on the move. Historians believe that the village was much larger than Custer had anticipated. Reno followed Custer's orders to cross the river with his three troops and made an initial attack on the south end of the village. Although the large camp appeared to be surprised by this initial contact, the Indians quickly mounted a responsive counter attack that almost immediately halted and then outflanked Reno and his troops. The troops were first driven under heavy pressure back into the timber along the river, after which they fled in a chaotic retreat out of the timber and up the steep bluffs east of the river, suffering casualties all the way. The remnants of