Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.

(See Nez Perce War) Gibbon found the Nez Perce near the Big Hole River in western Montana. Frank A. The Battle of the Little Bighorn resulted in the deaths of Custer and some 261 of his men.

John Gibbon (April 20 1827 – February 6 1896) was a career United States Army officer who fought in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.