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. I found the ground was very miry, so much so that I was afraid that I might get stuck in the mud. Slaper also questioned the timing of Thomspon's tale (he saw dark significance in the fact that Thompson's battlefield companion, Pvt. I now heard the clatter of hoofs behind me. After aiming at me for a few seconds, they slid off their ponies and sneaked after the other three. The red devil still kept aiming at me; I was a better target for him now than before. In early 20th-century America, sailor dresses were very popularly known as Peter Thomson dresses after the former naval tailor credited with creating the style. He died two months later. Our men never wavered but hugged the ground as close as possible and fired whenever they found the slightest opportunity to do execution. After we had climbed nearly half way up the bluff, the Indians commenced to fire at us, but that did not trouble us, because we knew that the Indians when excited were very poor shots; and in our case the bullets went wide of the mark. ( Meet our new Livable Planet desk. But now it was deserted. On June 7, 2014, Serge Pomerleau, 49, Denis Lefebvre, 53, and Yves Denis, 35, escaped from a Quebec detention center with help from a helicopter. I made some inquiries of some skulkers who I found among the horses and from what they told me I concluded that the ravine route was the only safe one to take. And thus we were brought to the fording place near the center of the village. March 1, 2023. The following is a list of historically famous prison escapes, and of people who escaped multiple times: There have been many infamous escapes throughout history: Merrill, Anthony. I now turned around and made my way to the place where my dead horse lay and stripped the saddle of everything, then went and made my bed behind my cracker box. Newspapers reported that Dillinger had escaped using a fake gun made from wood, blackened and shined with shoe polish. 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. No sooner had I faced them than they stopped, turned their horses across the trail, dismounted, threw their guns across their saddles, and took aim at us. I straightened myself up and said, "I will tell you what I will do." Had it not been for the watchfulness of our men, they certainly would have got the best o f us. 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 had not gone far, before we saw a sight that puzzled us very much. They had closed in around us on three sides and so close were they, that we could hear them talking. Kinging things off is our founder, Peter Thomson. It had been built by Indians for some purpose or other. I was too astonished for a moment to even speak or move, but when I did regain my speech I used it to the best advantage as that was all the weapon I had. Curley, a young Crow scout, would leave the command within the next ten minutes to take news of the battle to General Terry." I then asked Watson if that did not account for Custer's presence away from his command. The "problematic passages" in Thompson's first-person account of the battle center on Thompson and fellow straggler Pvt. Two years later Palaiokostas was captured and sent back to prison. Review by Dr. Kirk Bane, Central Texas Historical Association. I gave them the other canteen and told them that if they should not require all the water that I would like it to be passed around to some other wounded ones lying close by, which was so done. Are they really "impossible?". There's even a fairly reasonable -- or at least plausible -- explanation for the story of Custer taking a shot at Jackson. They were talking and gesticulating in a very earnest manner. Peter Thomson has been covering the the environment for more than 20 years and signed on as The World's environment editor in 2008. Our new feature, Training Rides Unpacked, will give you an insight into the cycling habits and character of our Ride Leaders through their favourite training rides. Water was not to be had for love or money. Peter set up Thomson Bike Tours in 2001 and must have covered well over 250,000km on the . 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. Then commenced a perfect howl from one end of the village to the other, made by the squaws and papooses. Hearing an oath behind me, I looked back and saw my comrade Watson trying to get his horse on its feet. The sight of this increased our courage. ", And Custer was riding ahead of his men with scout Fred Gerard minutes before Reno's attack when he encountered a group of Seventh Cavalry scouts at the "Lone Tepee." I began to get very angry and climbed to the top of the bank in no dignified manner. Peter Thompson 96K views 3 years ago. I mounted my horse again but found that a staggering walk was all I could get out of him. We did not retreat very far, for that was impossible. There were four Crow scouts with Custer that day, plus an Arikara named Black Fox. Two accomplices of Palaiokostas hijacked a sight-seeing helicopter and forced the pilot to fly to the prison where Palaiokostas was being held. My answer is, a sense of duty, and love for our comrades in arms. But I was just as positive in my belief that the cavalry would win. But he never moved. The question may be asked why we attempted to join our commands after two hours and a half. Although we had 2 boxes of ammunition which amounted to thousands of rounds. How deceptive are appearances. Our plan was for Watson to cross the river first to show how deep the water was. We felt we were discovered. Or at least that's one plausible way to read the eye-witness record of the battle. And he did and gradually left me behind. He was then transported in the trunk of a car driven by Camberos out of the town. I had left nearly a hundred rounds in my saddle bags, but owing to the incomplete condition of my prairie belt I was unable to carry more with me. He had begged in vain to have Reno advance to Custer's relief. Both Watson and myself had failed to notice the trail made by the cavalry in making their efforts to reach the lower end of the village. 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. 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. But in the meantime several accidents happened which helped to make it a serious matter for us. A short distance below I saw several cavalry men who were soon joined by others, eleven in all; a slim force indeed to clean out the ravine held by so many Indians, but they were resolute men. But finally the poor animal gained his feet with a groan, and Finkle passed on with a rush to overtake our company. He was kept very busy for some time. Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Look where we could, we saw Indians; we two on foot could not cope with scores of them on horseback. A message from Ambassador Peter Thomson, UNSG's Special Envoy for the Ocean to the IOC-UNESCO Ocean Literacy Training Courses. At this juncture the dry grass caught on fire threatening the destruction of the village, but the squaws fearless as the braves themselves fought the fire and tore down the teepees which were in danger of burning. Our means of defense were very poor. After arriving there I took inventory of my ammunition. Thompson was sentenced to death Oct. 28 and was being held in the county jail until he could be transferred to a prison in Livingston, about 75 miles to the northeast. 5 Jan 2023. 27 Feb 2023. In October 2013, Kevin Patrick Stoeser escaped from the Austin Transitional Center where he was serving the remainder of a 156-month sentence for four counts of child sexual assault and one count of possession of child pornography. My next trip to the river was taken with more courage. Watson said he saw that the stirrup strap was broken off and Jackson without any hat, presented a wild appearance. See Mysteries of the Little Bighorn for more info.] I now struggled to my feet and found that I was weak and dizzy from the loss of blood. 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. The cartridge was very dirty, a nice predicament for a man to be in when at close quarters with an enemy. He had received this latter name from the fact that on the back of his buckskin shirt the print of two human hands was visible, either put there by red ink or blood. Can this be true? This aroused me and I managed to struggle to a sitting posture, but the man and the gun were gone. One thing we made up our minds to do, that was to kill the white man even if the Indian escaped. To see them, please click on the underlined portion at the right side below. I jumped behind one of the fallen cottonwood trees; where Watson went, I could not at the time tell. Capt. Seeing that I was determined to go, they said no more but one of the men of Company C, named Tim Jordan [Pvt. Updated April 24, 2011, The Eye-witness Chronology On coming close, I saw they were our Ree scouts and two Crow Indians, one of whom was Half Yellow Face or Two Bloody Hands. 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. On August 27, 1995, multiple prisoners escaped from, In April 1998, the Belgian child molester, Martin Gurule escaped from the Texas Death Row at. Ladies and Gentlemen, Greetings to one and all. It was a sad, sad sight. No doubt they were coming this way in order to enter the village by the ford. He struggled to his feet; his face bore tokens of great fear. I slept so soundly that I heard and knew nothing until I felt someone kicking the soles of my boots. Cavalry men dismount and fight on foot except when a charge is made, but when a dismount is ordered, number four remains on his horse, numbers, one, two, and three dismount and hand their bridle reins to number four who holds the horses, while they deploy as skirmishers or as otherwise directed. My action would have been justified by the law, as it would have been an act of self defense. They answered, "Yes." He said, "the Indians greatly outnumber the soldiers; while we have been here, we have seen more Indians, twice over the combined strength of the Seventh." Capt. In fact, however, there is far, far more truth in Thompson's tale than Camp or conventional wisdom has been willing to accept. Thomson and Watson eventually found each other, banded together, and survived with Reno. Do Rzeczy Historia, no 8(66)/2018, September 2018, pp. According to White Man Runs Him, they all "went with Custer down a dry gulch to near the river.". I struggled to my feet and staggered after Watson. Curley and Kanipe both stated that Custer rode apart from his men to scout the countryside after the Battle of the Little Bighorn had started, and the Seventh Cavalry was charging to attack the Indian village at Medicine Tail Coulee, as did White Man Runs Him and Medal of Honor winner Fred Goldin. This was the 26th day of June, a day long to be remembered by all who took an active part, in fact, a day never to be forgotten. " F orty years after his death, Alfred Hitchcock is still the best known film director there ever was, or perhaps will ever be. To wade downstream was an impossibility. McDougal [Capt. By the time we had everything arranged, the sun was going down. On March 17, 1995, in Sublette, Kansas Dawn Amos, Douglas Winter and David Spain escaped in the early morning hours after shooting Sheriff Deputy, Irvin Powell twice. It was a sad, sad sight. The numbered items below are in chronological order, and correspond to the numbers on the "Peter Thompson at the Little Bighorn Map," shown above. The Indians seemed determined to exterminate us if possible. But I could not see any, and this puzzled me very much, but on looking down to the lower end of the bluffs I could see a body of men on horseback mounting slowly up the trail on top of the bluffs. The eye-witness record of the battle says there were actually four more survivors who left Custer's command after Curley. Thomas McDougall] Sargeant Knipe then told me that my horse had been found and was in charge of Fitzgerald, the horse farrier. Assigned to Co. C, 7th Cavalry, under Capt. "The Common Discourse of the Whole Nation: Jack Sheppard and the Art of Escape", in. View the profiles of people named Peter Thomson. The well formed ranks of the cavalry did fearful execution, for every time the soldiers fired I could see ponies and riders tumbling in the dust, I could also see riderless ponies racing away in every direction as if anxious to get away from such a frightful scene. The escape allegedly cost Guzmn $2.5 million. The first man we recognized was Sargeant Knipe [Sgt. The forces under Major Reno, at the time we stepped into the trail, were six companies of the left wing and one company of the right, namely Company B under the command of Capt. A white man capturing an enemy usually spares his life but if captured by hostile Indians, his days are numbered and he is known of men on earth no more. I had gotten so far without being hit that I thought I was going to get through safe, but as I was entering the mouth of the ravine, a volley was fired by the Indians who occupied it and over I tumbled shot through the right hand and arm. Pausing for a moment I looked cautiously around the bend and there before me was running water, the Little Horn River, on the opposite side was a thick cover of cottonwood timber, the sight of which made me hesitate for a moment. "Water, Thompson, Water, for God's sake!" From the Belle Fourche Bee, Belle Fourche, SD, December 1913. Custer was well versed in several Indian languages. 19h. Major Reno moved to the left of the trail and went into a flat bottomed ravine. A 7th Cavalry survivor's account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Before we reached the foot of the bluff we came upon an opening in the timber and brush with several large cottonwood trees lying upon the ground, stripped of their bark. When we stepped out into the trail at the head of the advancing column, it was about five o'clock in the afternoon. A short distance from me was a man belonging to Company A. By this time, the last of the companies had disappeared over the crest of the hill. The loss of blood and the lack of water made me so dizzy that I reeled and f ell and lay unheeded. It was a grand sight to see those men charging down upon the village of their enemies, who outnumbered them many times. Although the Indians denied it, there are several eye-witness accounts that suggest that there were one or more whites fighting on the Indians' side at the Little Bighorn, although not with the Sioux. I made my way as rapidly as possible toward the bank of the river. A large-scale search was made of the surrounding area, but he was never found. In 1993, ten prisoners escaped from Prlielupe prison in. He said, "This is our only weak and unprotected point and should the Indians succeed in passing this in any force they would soon end the matter as far as we are concerned." He escaped from prison and manage to evade the police for a year until he was recaptured in 1999 in. The day was extremely warm, but for all that the Indians had their blankets wrapped around them. We determined to ambush them if they attempted to pursue us. I finished putting on my spurs, mounted my horse again, and rode on after my company, but my progress was very slow. He and other prisoners dressed as prison guards and escaped via ladders across the prison yard to the wall. In New York, convicted murderers Timothy A. Vail and Timothy G. Morgan escaped from Elmira State Penitentiary in July 2003; both were recaptured in two days. Leonard T. Fristoe was imprisoned for double murder in 1920 of a police Constable and a deputy Sherriff in Nevada. Where we made our stand there was nothing but sand, gravel, and a little sagebrush. On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat, both serving sentences for murder, "Puente Grande" Federal Center for Social Rehabilitation No. And what are you going to do?" Sumas, WA 98295 But when I looked closer, I could see a few Indians sneaking around here and there, and every once in awhile an Indian would dash out of the village as if anxious to get to some given point in the least possible time. I then told him as it was now my turn I would proceed to the business. "And the strangest part of it," added Watson, "was that instead of taking the back trail, he struck straight from the river across the country and as far as he could see him, he was urging his pony to its utmost speed. Five days later, police officers found him brandishing an ax handle in his brother's apartment. The trio later fled to Colorado where an elderly man was kidnapped and later released unharmed. Both Brennan and Fitzgerald survived. 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. He had managed to make his way under cover of the ravine to the place where I found him. Both banks were wet with the splashing made by the animals going to and from the village. 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. 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. When about half way up the bluff, I noticed something that made me hesitate. The . If Peter Thompson's account of his experiences at the beginning of the Battle of the Little Bighorn was a treasure map, you could find the treasure with it -- it's that accurate and true to the actual landscape he's talking about. The officers were riding in order, a little in advance of their respective companies. He was found very close to our position which goes to show how closely we were confined. This was the appearance of Custer on the day that he entered his last battle, and just one half hour before the fight commenced between him and the Sioux. He escaped by crawling through a ventilation duct. THISEYE-WITNESS account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Seventh Cavalry Private Peter Thompson is one of the three great Lost Texts -- or perhaps I should say, Ignored Texts -- of the Little Bighorn eye-witness canon (the others are the accounts of White Cow Bull and Pretty Shield). 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.". Here, there, and everywhere he thought he was needed. Enlisted in the United States Army for 5 years, September 1875. 2. I found that very little change had taken place since the incident in the morning. But we waited in vain. If their enemy fell into their hands wounded or dying, it was simply to be put to the worst torture possible. The men only fired where they thought they were going to do execution. I made my way to the head of the ravine which ran down to the river. Marking: [label] Peter Thomson, Philadelphia - New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Two men came towards him dragging a piece of canvas with which they were going to construct a shelter for the steadily increasing numbers of wounded men. Sentenced to life imprisonment as a fourth time offender, he was transferred to the Philadelphia County Prison. He cast fearful glances around him as in mortal terror. With a cry of rage he drew his revolver from beneath his overcoat and taking aim at me he told me to skip or he would put a hole through me. September 12, 2019 7:13 AM EDT. Upon enlistment was assigned to Jefferson Barracks, St . We had scarcely been concealed ten minutes before we heard a heavy volley of rifle shots down the stream, followed by a scattering fire, I raised to my feet and parting the brush with my gun; the stalks being covered with long sharp thorns, which made it quite disagreeable for a person's clothes and flesh. Wherever duty called him, whatever the danger might be, he was always at his post. My pistol contained five cartridges, my belt contained seventeen cartridges for my carbine, a very slim magazine as a means of defense. P.O. The episode described by Thompson is fleeting, but because of it most conventional scholars of the battle have dismissed much or all of what Thompson had to say. But our men were still on the alert. 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. The canvas had to be stretched very close to the ground. 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. Benteen standing by my side. I told him I was under the impression that they were hostiles and that we had better keep clear of them. I rushed up to him and asked him where he was going. The halt was but for a moment, for the Indians came rushing towards them in great numbers. He was making his way towards a party Indians who were standing close to the river bank near a clump of underbrush. [Note: Curley also spoke memorably of the continuous roar of battle.] said he, "Let's move." 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. I had not gone far before I became aware of the fact that I had company. Authors always mention pets, so he has one dog and at least two possums. "Ten dollars for a drink," said one. Ponies were dashing here and there with their riders urging them on; the dust would rise and mingle with the smoke of the burning grass and brush. The firing was continuous, I removed my hat so that I would not attract attention, and looked over the panorama, as it was spread out before me. I started down the ravine but halted f or I f ound I had not my belt in which I usually carried my pistol having given it to one of my comrades. He tried to dissuade me, but as I would not go back without water and it was useless for me to remain where I was, I laid down my canteens and grasped the camp kettle which I had left on my previous trip. There were others also in the same fix. On examining my saddle, I was glad to find everything as I had left it. But this was getting to be a common sight. It was no wonder that the Indians were in great commotion when they beheld the bold front presented by the cavalry. On coming to Bennett, I placed a canteen in his hand, but he was too weak to lift it to his lips. Copyright 1973 - 2020 by Bruce Brown and BF Communications Inc. Astonisher, Astonisher.com, Conversations With Crazy Horse, 100 Voices, Who Killed Custer?, The Winter Count of Crazy Horse's Life, and Mysteries of the Little Bighorn are trademarks of BF Communications Inc. BF Communications Inc. But my duty was plain. On hearing me, he checked up his horse and looked around. Then I saw several guidons fluttering in the breeze, which I knew as the ones which our cavalry carried on the march. "All American: A Sportswear Tradition," April 4, 1985-June 29, 1985. The squaws and papooses now kept howling without intermission. We saw that our horses and mules were beginning to drop quite fast, for they were in a more exposed position. One of the Indians mounted his pony and rode on the edge of the bluff abreast of us. Eight inmates charged with violent crimes, Lance Battreal, Charles Smith, and Mark Booher escaped from a. Few of them returned but they had accomplished their object. While I was making calculations as to leaving my horse and trying my luck on foot, I thought I was seeing something familiar in their appearance. The noise they made resembled the howling of a coyote and the squealing of a cat. Training Rides Unpacked Peter Thomson. 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. The trail I was on led directly to the river and thence into the village. It did not take me long to reach the top of the bluff, where I got a glimpse of the village, the river and the mouth of the ravine. Looking to my right, I saw a ravine and at the bottom of it a small clump of wild cherry bushes. With a long sweep of my kettle upstream I succeeded in getting plenty of sand and a little water. Likewise, it was certainly not unusual for Custer to ride alone ahead of his men when scouting. The firing on the part of the Indians was very brisk at intervals. Passing the ford on the run, we came to some underbrush; when we slowed down to a walk. They have also lived in Nashua, NH and Burlington, MA. Custer had done so repeatedly on the Seventh Cavalry's approach to the Little Bighorn. Knipe added, "They all thought you was a gonner." See Sioux and Cheyenne Military Tactics for more info.] We were in a very precarious condition. At this point the trail was washed very badly on both sides as it descended towards the river. 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. I walked forward looking into the grove for signs of Indians, but not a sign of life could I see. The plan we had mapped out for ourselves was to climb the right bank of the river and gain the trail of the cavalry and then, if possible, join our company. The water at this point ran very shallow over a sandbar. We also know that Curley was there at the river too from what he described of the beginning of the Custer fight. "Fifteen dollars for a canteen of water," said a second. The commotion in the village had subsided; the signs of life were few; it appeared to me that it was deserted, so quiet and deathlike was the stillness. Our retreat was covered by Company D commanded by Capt. George A. Finckle] of our company sitting calmly on his horse looking on and making no effort to help Watson in his difficulty. Looking in the direction of the battle, I saw that the cavalry were being driven towards the foot of a small hill; their number greatly reduced. We formed the cracker boxes into a half circle and kept them as close together as possible. So we started in the proposed direction. John Fitzgerald], Brennan [Pvt. However, Supergirl convinced Peter to help her foil Rick's plan. Pictures are on Fotki.com. 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. He was lying on his face so still that I thought he was dead. 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. Going in the direction of the horses, I saw what suffering the poor brutes were enduring from thirst and hunger. It was not a question of days but of hours. meaning Indian Department. However, the most likely is Curley, who was at the river alone -- as Thompson described -- and he was always fundimentally evasive about what happened there. The heat at this time seemed to be intense, but it might have been on account of my exhausted condition. The herd of ponies which had been grazing at quite a distance were now rounded up close to the teepees; so that the Indians had available mounts. 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