The Indians who seemed to be detailed to bring in the dead and the wounded were continually coming into the village with double burdens showing that the soldiers though greatly decreased in numbers were still doing eff ective work. Custer was well versed in several Indian languages. No doubt they thought the position they occupied was the safest one to serve their country in. Louis, MS. meaning Indian Department. This aroused me and I managed to struggle to a sitting posture, but the man and the gun were gone. Watson was a short distance behind me and was keeping watch on the flat below. 40-43. On looking around, I saw a white man and what I supposed to be a Crow Indian. It had been built by Indians for some purpose or other. Wherever duty called him, whatever the danger might be, he was always at his post. He escaped by crawling through a ventilation duct. By Peter Thomson. [Note: this was clearly the slow part of the troop -- Sgt. The problem that now perplexed us was what we were to do. However, there's also another, equally plausible but much, much darker read on the scene with Custer and the roped squaw, namely that Curley was Custer's procurer and they were both there to rape and murder the Sioux woman. He was kept very busy for some time. Being in our present predicament, we were utterly powerless to help as we wished we could. The day was extremely warm, but for all that the Indians had their blankets wrapped around them. It was equipped with artificial light, air conditioning, and high-quality construction materials. There was no weak place unguarded, no ammunition was being wasted. Peter Thomson has been covering the the environment for more than 20 years and signed on as The World's environment editor in 2008. The Indians no doubt thought that they had finished him for two of them turned and disappeared in the village. Capt. At the other end of the rope, straining and tugging to get away, was a Sioux squaw. Review by Dr. Kirk Bane, Central Texas Historical Association. Peter Thompson was an American who put his life on the line for his comrades and his country -- and received the Medal of Honor for his valor -- but that hasn't stopped America from turning him into non-person in order to preserve its cherished, comfortable self-deceptions. On March 30, 2010, three inmates, Quentin Truehill, Kentrell Johnson, and Peter Hughes escaped from Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office in Mansura, Louisiana after holding an officer hostage. Just then the order was given to retreat and Reno's command began to march slowly to the rear. This made me determined to make another trip and to take a larger number of canteens. All routes to the river were cut off by the Indians. I called for Watson to stop and told him that we had friends coming. But to attempt to get water by that route was too risky. James Watson], and although composing one of the sets of fours that entered into action with Custer, not one of us ever reached the battlefield which proved fatal to Custer and his men. He escaped but was captured at an airport five hours later. Najmrodzki was a famous robber and thief, known for escaping 29 times from the prison and the authorities. History hardly records a predicament such as we were in. ISBN: 978--593-31815-7. Pictures are on Fotki.com. The same is also true of what seems, on the face of it, the wildest parts of Thompson's story: (1) the eye-witness account of how a white man with an Indian shot at him while he was fleeing to join Reno, (2) the hearsay claim (via his Seventh Cavalry straggler companion) James Watson, that Custer took a shot at half-Sioux Seventh Cavalry Scout Billy Jackson just before the beginning of the Custer fight. There are 600+ professionals named "Peter Thomson", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. McNair was captured in October 2007 in Canada and is now held at the. They answered, "Yes." Suddenly he left the trail and made his way up the river. Had it not been for the watchfulness of our men, they certainly would have got the best o f us. In November 1987 Peter Thomson aged 19 at the time escaped from Winchester Prison. On July 27, 2013, 1,000 inmates escaped from the Queyfiya prison near. John Martin agreed, "All the time, as we rode, scouts were riding in and out, and the General would listen to them and sometimes gallop away a short distance to look around.". The water at this point ran very shallow over a sandbar. Peter Thompson's Story of the Battle On September 11, 2014, T.J. 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We also know that Curley was there at the river too from what he described of the beginning of the Custer fight. So here's a belated salute to a great American, Peter Thompson: he was courageous in battle, and courageous in telling America the truth about the battle afterwards. I first found a man by the name of Bennett [Pvt. Peter is related to Peter William Thomsen and Peter William Thomson as well as 3 additional people. He pointed down the stream, put spurs to his horse and disappeared at the ford, never uttering a word. I was anxious to save him and if I did I must act quickly. Enlisted in the United States Army for 5 years, September 1875. "Back in Prison After Restful Sojourn Here". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. On 13 December 2014 he escaped for the 20th time through the window by rope, after having sawed the bars. Assigned to Co. C, 7th Cavalry, under Capt. Tony, for that was the man's name, was lying in the place best suited for the shelter and the men called to him to get out of the way. The one that was left stood facing me, still disputing our passage across the river. He not only tried to dissuade me but called to Sargeant Knipe and told him of my intention of going to the river. As I gained the rise of ground that commanded a view of the village, river and surrounding country I saw a small group of men examining an object lying on the ground which I found to be an Indian bedecked in all his war paint, which goes to make up a part of their apparent courage and fierce appearance. We had been two hours and a half in our concealment in the bend of the river watching the fight between Custer and the Indians. New York. Watson, surprised, answered, "No," and again asked what was up. I jumped to my feet and started off at once, hardly caring whether the Indians saw me or not, for the presence of the cavalry had put fresh courage into me. In 1976, sex cult leader and convicted rapist. Peter Thomson holds his third Open Championship trophy in 1956 In addition to his playing achievements, he went on to be president of the Australian PGA for 32 years and helped establish the. He struggled to his feet; his face bore tokens of great fear. The other two offenders (one serving a life sentence for murder, the other for rape and kidnapping) were at large for several days before being apprehended in a small town approximately 40 miles (64km) from the prison. Authored the narrative, "Custer's Last Fight, The Experience of a Private in the Custer Massacre" Died December 3, 1928, Veterans Home, Hot Springs, SD, buried at Lead, SD.". I made up my mind that all but one shot should be fired at the Indians, and that one would go into my head, for I had determined never to be taken alive. John J. Mahoney] of our Company and I had no fear but that he would be well cared for. The noise gradually became louder and louder until it became indescribably and almost unbearable to the ears of civilized persons. Wishing to have company, I was about to call for him to stop, but happily for me I did not, for I saw the reason why Watson, for such he proved to be, turned aside. John Brennan], and Watson [Pvt. Peter Thompson was the father of Rick Malverne. One of the men began to kick him and yelled for him to get up. Hughes and Johnson are currently serving life in prison for Binder's murder, and Truehill is sitting on Florida's death row for the same offense. He escaped by hiding in a pallet of used mailbags. I called Watson's attention to the approaching horsemen, but he was firmly convinced that they were Indians. After getting everything in shape, I started on the run. Water was not to be had for love or money. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Payet (born 1963) is a French criminal who gained notoriety for his daring prison escapes using helicopters. He was then transported in the trunk of a car driven by Camberos out of the town. While looking on and wondering where the Crow was going we were further astonished by seeing General Custer dash out of the fording place and ride rapidly up to the Crow and commence to talk to him. As an Australian considered a part-time player on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and '60s, Thomson existed in a parallel universe to American fans who, at that media-lite time, were rarely exposed to. I looked on while the doctor attended the wounded that were brought in. We had two spades, the others having been either broken or lost, so our means of digging rifle pits were limited and natural defenses there were none. We managed to secret ourselves in a bend of the river, which turned like the letter S, and gave us running water on three sides of us. Ladies and Gentlemen, In these days of virtual communication, it is often difficult to know whom one is addressing and how you are all faring as we work our way out of this global . (360) 927-3234, Thompson was the last one to see Custer alive, gallop away a short distance to look around, a flat beside the river with a ford at the lower end, the Little Bighorn River ran hard against the bluffs, horsemen with Seventh Cavalry guidons climbing the bluffs above, Custer's Last Fight, The Experience of a Private in the Custer Massacre. Camp, who had no battlefield experience at all, declared Medal of Honor winner Thompson's eye-witness account of his escape from the slaughter "impossible," a judgement that American historians have not revisited in almost a century. But our men were still on the alert. The bank being very wet, my feet slipped from under me several times. In November 1987 Peter Thomson aged 19 at the time escaped from Winchester Prison. The "problematic passages" in Thompson's first-person account of the battle center on Thompson and fellow straggler Pvt. Can this be true? The cartridge was very dirty, a nice predicament for a man to be in when at close quarters with an enemy. Their management level is C-Level. We looked to see if the horse was still there but there was no trace of it; no doubt it had passed into the hands of the Indians. Powell later died of his injuries in an Oklahoma City hospital three days later. I slept so soundly that I heard and knew nothing until I felt someone kicking the soles of my boots. But before we could reach it, they fired at us but as usual missed; but the twigs and leaves were cut by the bullets and we came to the conclusion that we were not to be killed by the Indians. If it had not been for the terrible position we were in we could have had a panorama view of the snowcapped hills of the Big Horn Mountains, which forms the fountain heads of the Little and Big Horn Rivers. We kept very close to the underbrush, which lined the bank of the river. He escaped two times with a helicopter. Benteen was busily hunting up all the men he could to go to the same point, in order to keep the Indians in check and if possible to drive the Indians out of the ravine. The men only fired where they thought they were going to do execution. Half Yellow Face only shook his head and said "Heap Sioux," "Heap Sioux," "Heap shoot" "Heap shoot," "Come," and motioned for me to go back with them. He must have gone thence directly to his command. I called to Watson to keep quiet for a few moments, and began to walk backwards up the bank keeping my eyes fixed on the Indian and watching his every movement. Being afraid that the Indian would escape, I worked at it in a desperate manner and finally got it out far enough to use my thumb nail, which proved affective. We had not gone far, before we saw a sight that puzzled us very much. I asked him to attend to me when he had time to do so. Here is Peter Thompson's account of the Seventh Cavalry's march to the Little Bighorn. He manage to escape from Pretoria prison with five others in December 1997. The hill we were climbing seemed very long, so much so to me that I fell down and lay there without any inclination to move again, until Watson called my attention to the head of the column of cavalry which now came into plain view. After we began to climb the hill, I found my strength was giving out, and in spite of the fact that we were in full view of the Indians, I laid down to rest and all my entreaties for Watson to go on and save himself were fruitless. When one fell either dead or wounded he was carried from the field; but there remained plenty to take his place; but if a soldier fell there was no one to take his, and if wounded there was no one to bring him water to quench his thirst; if dying, no one to close his eyes. The last thing I heard as I lay down upon the ground was the howling of the Indians and the wailing of the bugles. WHEN YOU ACTUALLY look at them, Thompson's "problematic passages" are really no problem at all, except that they honestly tell Americans some things they don't want to hear -- e.g., that the Seventh Cavalry under Custer murdered and quite possibly raped its way to annihilation. Want to Read. I knew that if the cavalry drove the savages from their village, they would scatter in all directions, and if any of the straggling devils came across such an unfortunate as myself, I would stand a poor show. I found in the center of our place of defense that we had a surgeon busily attending to the wounded and dying. When we looked into the village we could see the guidon fluttering in the breeze. Thompson and Watson had spied a Seventh Cavalry guidon in the huge free Sioux and Cheyenne village across the river, and they were under the mistaken impression that they could rejoin their Seventh Cavalry comrades there. I asked Watson to hand me his hat and I would fill it with water for him and he did so. Benteen seemed to be aware of the impending danger, and was forming all the men he possibly could into line at the point where it was expected that the Indians would attack us. Here's the sequence: you start with the little hill on the lower Medicine Tail Coulee Trail where his horse played out; then there's the ravine he jumped into; then there's the pilar of rock he climbed to; then there's the badly eroded trail he followed to the river; then there's the flat beside the river where he saw Custer and the Crow scout with a tethered Sioux squaw; then there's the ford at the lower end of the flat where he tried to cross the river; then there's the bend where the river runs hard against the bluffs he tried to climb; then there's the oxbow he hid in; then there's the flat where he saw the Indians in some sort of council; then there are the bluffs he saw Reno's men retreating up, etc. He said Jackson was in a fearful state of mind. But now they were beginning to recover themselves. Suddenly he put spurs to his horse and rode away, his long hair streaming in the wind and looking right and left as if expecting his enemy to appear at any moment. Updated April 24, 2011, The Eye-witness Chronology Tom Custer and other Seventh Cavalry troopers riding across the river in the moonlight, but it turned out to be Indians in captured Army uniforms.]. Poor fellow, he was past speaking in his usual strong voice. It is assumed that he used someone else's identity. I had made haste to fill the canteens and started on my way to camp bidding Mike Madden to be of good cheer and he made a cheerful reply. The escape happened with the help of his wife, and they later went on a month-long crime spree across . My action would have been justified by the law, as it would have been an act of self defense. Some of the men, seeing his action, begged him to stay telling him that it would go hard with the command if anything should go wrong with him and to enforce their arguments a wounded man was brought in who needed his immediate attention. So, loading my carbine which was done in a moment, I took aim at him as he turned to go to his pony which was about thirty feet back of him on a slight elevation winding up his rawhide rope as he did so, I fired, but missed him because Watson who was on the line with the Indian made a movement which distracted my aim. I thought my time had surely come; It was too late to retreat. There were numerous ravines leading into the one which we occupied. We concluded to seek some sheltered nook to cover ourselves from the extreme heat of the sun, and to wait until the Indians had quieted down for they were beginning to be like a swarm of bees. With open ears and eyes I awaited their coming. A person could easily be mistaken, for the road over which they passed was rocky, sandy, and hard, consequently, the marks left by the horses' feet were very faint.20 Notwithstanding, this mistake left us in a very critical condition. The night of June 25, Lt. Charles DeRudio thought he saw Capt. "Movie Made Escaped Convict Go Back to Charleston Prison". So I commenced to search around for them. I discovered a pool of blood a short distance from him which had come from a terrible wound in his leg. Whether he had gone through the village or waded down the stream to reach his command is a question that cannot be answered; but as we had seen no signs of him crossing to the opposite side, we naturally thought that he had made his way down the stream. When the Fotki album comes up, click on the first picture for a larger view. I peeped over the fallen tree and saw a group of mounted Indians gesticulating, grunting out their words, and pointing towards the advancing cavalry. I found the ground was very miry, so much so that I was afraid that I might get stuck in the mud. And, the pop star's son Junior Andre, 17, took to Instagram on Monday, where he shared shirtless snap of the duo with just towels around their waists. Yes, absolutely! THOMSON, Illinois (KWQC) - Five inmates were captured after escaping from the USP Thomson prison camp last week according to AFGE 4070, the union representing workers at USP Thomson. When about half way up the bluff, I noticed something that made me hesitate. I asked him if his horse was not played out; he said it was. After meeting Thompson and the Crow scout with the roped enemy squaw on the banks of the Little Bighorn -- and finding no better alternative crossing places -- the eye-witness record says Custer then returned to the ford at Medicine Tail Coulee in this scenario, tried to cross there, got shot by White Cow Bull, and died "in the water of the Little Bighorn." By this time it was quite dark; I could plainly see several large fires which the Indians had built. A more miserable looking wretch it would be difficult to find. We thought we would have time enough to fortify ourselves before the light of another day appeared. A short distance from me lay a wounded man, groaning and struggling in the agony of death. -- Bruce Brown Slaper also questioned the timing of Thomspon's tale (he saw dark significance in the fact that Thompson's battlefield companion, Pvt. The Crow then left Custer and rode in a jog trot towards the river and disappeared. We stopped a moment to consider the best way to proceed and how to act. Additionally, Thompson provides the last look at Custer alive; he shows that Indians used captured Cavalry bugles, as Roman Nose did at the Battle of Beecher's Island; and he describes the clever "stationary wheel" technique they employed in their attack on Custer, as well as its withering effect on the Americans: Round and round rode the savages in a seemingly tireless circle. Though we may be far apart I celebrate the fact that we are in each other's virtual company and are able to share our ideas over the next half an hour. No doubt they were coming this way in order to enter the village by the ford. Tim Jordan] gave me a large pocket handkerchief to make a sling for my wounded hand. Detroit Institute of Arts. So, jumping from the bank, I landed at the edge of the water and I just saw that the water tasted good. We were quite willing to change our location if we could, but we hesitated for several reasons; we were separated from our leader and our forces were divided. So we began to map out a course by which we could join our command, where we felt we were so much needed. "And now, Watson," said I, "I will help myself along by hanging to your horse's tail, as I cannot otherwise keep up with you." "Then," said he, "Charge down there and drive them out." And what are you going to do?" I told him I was under the impression that they were hostiles and that we had better keep clear of them. Facebook gives people the power to. While I was thus engaged and when Watson had forded to the middle of the stream, I heard the crack of three rifles which caused me to straighten up quickly and look around to see what the trouble was. He later turned himself in to authorities after being diagnosed with cancer in an attempt to take advantage of free medical care he would receive in prison. Each man was supposed to carry one hundred rounds of cartridges, but a great many had wasted theirs by firing at game along the route. It was a sad, sad sight. A sailor dress is a child's or woman's dress that follows the styling of the sailor suit, particularly the bodice and collar treatment.A sailor-collared blouse is called a middy blouse ("middy" derives from "midshipman"). Although the Indians outnumbered us many times, they lacked the courage and determination of the day previous when they fought Custer; they no doubt had been taught a bitter lesson. When the Crow scout left him, he wheeled around and made for the same point in the river where we had first seen him. The eye-witness record of the battle says there were actually four more survivors who left Custer's command after Curley. Mr. Thomson brings a distinguished experience in diplomatic services and is familiar with the work of the United Nations, including as Permanent Representative of Fiji to the UN and President of. After his second escape he was captured on September 21, 2007. "Well," said he, "Let us keep together." There were others also in the same fix. But as on the former occasion, when I came to the bend in the ravine I halted and looked carefully around the corner. To wade downstream was an impossibility. . It does mention the hardships of the soldiers of the late Civil War, but it is nothing to campaigning against the Indians. The noise gradually became louder and louder until it became indescribably and almost to. 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