Re: Company I at Little Big Horn

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: :I believe the "wild I'is deployed on the military crest of the ridge in a NNE direction. This would indicate they were doing three things,: 1. protecting the battalion's back door. 2. providing support to co. L. 3. protecting the horseholders ( these men, one for every four horses were always sent out of the line of fire ( the heavy fire was coming from the SSW over the ridgeline. I haven't heard the 3rd possibility, but most students of the LBH are not horsemen or versed in 1876 cavalry tactics.                       : At Little Big Horn, it has been established that Company L under Lt. Calhoun fought a bitter rear guard action. Has there been any established opinion on what action Company I under Captain Myles Keogh performed? Where they in fact suporting Company L as a rear guard? Did they fight hard, or collapse?

: : I remember during my one, and only, visit to the Battlefield in 1987, getting the distinct impression [from the location of the markers] that Keogh's Company I had the look of a unit that had been pushed over the ridge - away from the river - by mounting Indian pressure.

: : It is more commonly thought that they were going to the aid of a collapsing Company L, under Calhoun, or moving to meet a new threat in the form of Crazy Horse. Most descriptions say their demise was quick. 


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