 Companies B, E, and K of George Armstrong Custer's Seventh U.S. Cavalry led by Major Lewis Merrill arrived in the area to try to quell the violence, Elias Hill stepped in to lead the league, now in disarray.In another raid, Hill's nephews, Solomon Hill and June Moore, were attacked and forced to renounce their Republican Party affiliation in the local paper, the "Yorkville Enquirer".Elias Hill was attacked on May 5, 1871.