>>17786004
idk how much the lever guns really mattered. there was only physical evidence for about 20 individual henry rifle at the battle. the injun forces outnumbered the Americans at least 2 to 1, maybe 3 to 1 and the Americans though there were way fewer injuns, like they sent 3 detachments to go after them thinking any one of the 3 would win and one of the other 3 already had retreated before custard and his guy's got there. Then when the actual fighting started Reno basically ended up right on top of the camp due to tree cover. got turned back (this might have been the hill they found all the henry casings on) then his buddy got shot and he started acting erratically for the rest of the battle and prevented anyone else in the 7th cav from helping custard. Like to the point where he overruled custard's orders and refused to allow the troops to split off to go help him and also fucked off at one point to go look for his friend's body