Benteen, Come on, Big village, Be quick, bring packs.
W.W. Cooke      P.S. bring packs.
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"The body of General Custer although perfectly nude was not mutilated. He had been shot in two place, one bullet had entered his body on the right side and passed nearly but not quite through, the second bullet, and undoubtedly the fatal one, passed thorugh his head entering close to the right ear and coming out near the left ear. Under his body was found four or five brass cartridges which, with a lock of his hair, was afterwards sent to his widow.

It was a very difficult matter to identify the body of Captain Tom Custer. He lay some ten or fifteen feet from the General and had been most shockingly mutilated. He had been split down through the center of his body and through the muscles of his arms and thighs, his throat was cut and his head smashed flat.... A careful search was made and although the arm was cut and somewhat blackened, the letters [T.W.C.] were found, and the body identified....."
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The second is from a letter written by First Sergeant John Ryan, who had charge of the burial detail, to William O. Taylor and quoted in Taylor's With Custer On the Little Big Horn (New York: Viking, 1996). Taylor fought with Reno.