Long Winter Gone: Son Of The Plains - Volume 1 - Plot & Excerpts
As officers and enlisted climbed the knoll behind the three creaking wagons burdened with blanket-wrapped corpses, an eerie pall descended over them all. Torches flickered in the mournful wind that sighed through the bare hackberry and blackjack. Even the moon hid its pale face behind a death shroud of clouds. An uneasy cloak of dread fell upon those men crowding the trench where the bodies lay side by side by side. Benteen sensed the hair rise on the back of his neck as a wolf howled from the trees off to the west. He was certain the predator’s beastly call signified that something far greater than Custer himself had destined Frederick Benteen to head this detail. He smiled inwardly to himself, but sourly. A small, bitter victory over Custer. Benteen had been the first to question Custer’s decision to abandon the search of the Washita Valley without finding Elliott’s men, raising his first objection the moment they began their march back to Camp Supply. It was Benteen at the center of those grumbling and secretive complainers who called Custer to task ever since that retreat from this bloody valley.
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