title: Troopers with Custer: Historic Incidents of the Battle of the Little Big Horn
author:  E. A. Brininstool 
description: No one survived in Custer's immediate command, but other soldiers fighting in the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876, were doomed to remember the nightmarish scene for decades after. Their true and terrible stories are included in Troopers With Custer.
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  **“A DAMNED BIG FIGHT”**
  
  
  **Crazy Horse, Custer and Sitting**
  
  
  **Bull**
  
  
  **at**
  
  
  **The Little Bighorn**
  
  
  **JOHN G. ROBERTS**
  
  
  **© 2016**
  
  
  **ISBN: 9781519079268**
  
  
  
  
  
  “……Boyer turned to me and said, ‘Have you ever fought against these Sioux?’
  ‘Yes’, I replied, and then he asked, ‘Well, how many do you expect to find?’ I
  answered, ‘It is said we may find between 1,000 and 1,500.’ ‘Well, do you
  think you can whip that many?’ ‘Oh, yes, I guess so.’ After he had interpreted
  our conversation [to the other scouts], he said to me with a good deal of
  emphasis, ‘Well, I can tell you we are going to have **a damned big**
  **fight**.” [emphasis added]
  
  
  From a conversation between Lt. Edward S. Godfrey, K Troop, 7th U.S.
  
  
  Cavalry and scout Mitch Boyer in camp on the Rosebud, June 22, 1876.
  
  
  (John S. Gray, _Custer’s Last Campaign,_ page 208-209).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By that time, Lieutenant Luther Hare had reached the top of the bluff. “If
  we’ve got 