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. 2. 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. I felt exceedingly thirsty and said to Watson that I proposed to have a drink. Although my thirst was great, I did not stop to take a drink until I landed amidst my fellow soldiers. 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. Had I been armed I would have been more at my ease. I knew it was useless for me to try to avoid being seen so I depended on my ability to escape the bullets of the Indians. Yes, absolutely! Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Medal of Honor winner Peter Thompson was the last Seventh Cavalry trooper to get out of George A. Custer's doomed command alive.The Astonisher.com Map (above) reveals how he escaped the fate of his comrades, told in the eye-witness accounts of Thompson himself, fellow Seventh Cavalry survivor, John McGuire, and an Anonymous . I then told him when he passed our scouts on the trail above. Here, there, and everywhere he thought he was needed. Then commenced a perfect howl from one end of the village to the other, made by the squaws and papooses. I called for Watson to stop and told him that we had friends coming. Just then the order was given to retreat and Reno's command began to march slowly to the rear. 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. Belts for carrying ammunition were, at this time, just coming into use, and a great many of us had nothing but a small cartridge box as means of carrying our ammunition when away from our horses. Originally reprinted in The Black Hills Trails, by Jesse Brown and A.M. Willard, Rapid City Journal Co., Rapid City, SD, 1924. Passing the ford on the run, we came to some underbrush; when we slowed down to a walk. [Note: according to Edward Godfrey, Weir did not ask permission, but did, in fact, lead a foray in Custer's direction, but was quickly driven back by the Sioiux and Cheyenne.]. 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 stopped a moment to consider the best way to proceed and how to act. Ladies and Gentlemen, Greetings to one and all. While meditating upon the combination of circumstances which had brought me into this unhappy condition, I looked ahead and saw Watson, but was unable to overtake him slow as he was going. Indians were leaving the village in all speed to assist in the fight against the cavalry; others from the battlefield with double burdens of dead and wounded were arriving. Benteen dash into the midst of our horses and drive out several men who were hiding and skulking about them. 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. The bank being very wet, my feet slipped from under me several times. I still clung to my carbine and revolver. Benteen turned around and walked away to the extreme left, seemingly tireless and unconscious of the hail of lead that was flying around him. "All American: A Sportswear Tradition," April 4, 1985-June 29, 1985. But there was something that made us move sooner than I wished; a large body of Indians had crossed the river and were coming across the flat toward the hill we were climbing. I started on looking back once in a while to see if the Indians were coming. The Indian without lowering his rifle blazed away a second time, with the same result as before. The red devils seemed determined to crush us. Linebaugh, Ch.1. One young man had the courage of a lion. ", After the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Thompson "participated in the Northern Cheyenne Campaigh 1878 Honorable Discharge 1880 Homesteaded Alzada, Montana 1890 Married September 21 1904 to Ruth Boicourt, two children, Susan and Peter Jr. Here is Peter Thompson's account of the Seventh Cavalry's march to the Little Bighorn. November 2, 2007 During the fight between Custer and the Sioux, scores of Indians had stationed themselves on the bluffs overlooking the village as far as we could see, so that any movement on our part would have led to our discovery; but nevertheless we made up our minds not to remain long in our present place of concealment. It was a foolish undertaking for, a short distance below us, the bluffs came close to the river and the water washing at the base for so long a time, had caused the bluff to cave in and for the distance of a hundred feet up was so steep that even a goat could not climb it. The firing on the part of the Indians was very brisk at intervals. $28.00. I discovered a pool of blood a short distance from him which had come from a terrible wound in his leg. Payet (born 1963) is a French criminal who gained notoriety for his daring prison escapes using helicopters. No doubt they thought the position they occupied was the safest one to serve their country in. Watson kept himself during the time of our concealment buried in deep thought. Even as secure a place as where we had formed our breastwork was no longer safe. Two years later he was arrested after being stopped in an unregistered car. That was the last I ever saw of Custer alive. Kanipe said Custer was "gone two hours. The escape happened with the help of his wife, and they later went on a month-long crime spree across . 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. It was a sad, sad sight. Watson began to crawl out of the water. He manage to escape from Pretoria prison with five others in December 1997. Watson said he saw that the stirrup strap was broken off and Jackson without any hat, presented a wild appearance. Harrington. I told him that I was afraid my horse was entirely played out. Being very thirsty I forgot everything else, and stooping down, began to dip water from the river in my hands and drink. In a clump of red berry bushes we found a log which made quite a comfortable seat for us. A short distance from me lay a wounded man, groaning and struggling in the agony of death. 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 only hope f or us to accomplish our purpose was to make the effort after night came on. The Indians were able to occupy every available position afforded by nature on account of their numbers. The trio later fled to Colorado where an elderly man was kidnapped and later released unharmed. 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.". About a half a mile further on we came in sight of the Indian village and it was truly an imposing sight to anyone who had not seen anything like it before. Jerking off his blanket he waved it in a peculiar manner and shouted out some lingo to those in the village and then pointed towards us. The problem that now perplexed us was what we were to do. While the hottest of the fight was going on and the tide of battle seemed to be against us, our doctor dropped his bandages, and grasping a gun started toward the skirmish line. When the Crow scout left him, he wheeled around and made for the same point in the river where we had first seen him. Both Brennan and Fitzgerald survived. 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. The deep voices of the braves, the howling of the squaws, the shrill piping of the children and the barking of the dogs made night hideous; but they appeared to enjoy it amazingly. 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. 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. I threw open the breech lock of my carbine to throw the shell out, but it was stuck fast. The only answer was a long wailing blast; it was not what was expected. In 1977, convicted murderer James Robert Jones escaped from prison in Kansas, and lived in Florida for 37 years under the alias of Bruce Walter Keith. Considering that Reno's Arikara scouts had murdered a dozen Sioux squaws at the outset of Reno's attack a half hour before, what Thompson described the Crow scout doing with the tethered squaw isn't impossible at all. Here is An Anonymous Ree's account of what he thought were Thompson's last mintues on this planet. Watson, looking around at me said, "What in thunder is the matter?" The cause of this commotion was Major Reno with three companies of men about a mile distant from the upper end of the village, dashing along in a gallop towards them. John J. Mahoney] of our Company and I had no fear but that he would be well cared for. He replied, "Have you seen Custer?" By his own word, he was watching through binoculars when Custer attacked at Medicine Tail Coulee. Watson had evidently not made this discovery. After completing my inventory, I sat down and began to reflect on my chances for my life, if I remained where I was. The sun reflecting on the sand and gravel made it very hot. To say that we were astonished would faintly express our feelings. Watson asked him what was the matter. He had begged in vain to have Reno advance to Custer's relief. Hearing an oath behind me, I looked back and saw my comrade Watson trying to get his horse on its feet. I was still tugging away at the spurs, when Watson came up and asked what the trouble was and then passed on in the trail of the soldiers. Watson was a short distance behind me and was keeping watch on the flat below. Indians for their families, property, and glory. And now, he asked, "Are you ready?" After his arrest, he brought a lawsuit against authorities charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest and used the incident to plan his next escape. 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. 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." One of them was injured during the escape, and while trying to get back into the prison, he got caught in the razor between the fences. Actually, these aren't "impossible" either. Click here for Thompson's full account of his experiences at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. 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 unexpected bonus in Thompson's tale is that he may reveal what Curley was up to when he vanished just before the start of the Custer fight -- and why he was always evasive about what happened at the river. In January 2001, three inmates escaped from Chicago State Penitentiary's H-Unit (Hi-Max). And what are you going to do?" When I fired this shot, Watson jumped to his feet and began to lead his horse out of the stream toward me. This is even true of Kingsley Bray's generally admirable 2006 Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life. It was a grand sight to see those men charging down upon the village of their enemies, who outnumbered them many times. 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. By the time we had everything arranged, the sun was going down. He was one of 12 convicts who escaped the institution through a tunnel. According to White Man Runs Him, they all "went with Custer down a dry gulch to near the river.". Some of the poor fellows would never recover, others would be crippled for life and I would carry a broken hand. We had plenty of them and some of them very badly hurt. I had lost sight of Watson and thinking that I could make my horse go faster by mounting, I did so. Look where we could, we saw Indians; we two on foot could not cope with scores of them on horseback. The way that I had to go to my post was up a short hill towards the edge of the bluff and the head of the ravine. He answered, "To our scouts, of course." There was nothing left for us to do but run. McDougal [Capt. All urging on my part was useless. I jerked it from his grasp and passed it on to the next. 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. 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. Peter Benjamin Parker, tambm conhecido por seu pseudnimo de Homem-Aranha, um personagem fictcio e protagonista da srie de filmes The Amazing Spider-Man de Marc Webb.Adaptado do super-heri de mesmo nome da Marvel Comics criado por Stan Lee e Steve Ditko, ele interpretado por Andrew Garfield e aparece nos filmes The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) e sua sequncia The Amazing Spider . So we began to map out a course by which we could join our command, where we felt we were so much needed. the other. It was utterly impossible to move our wounded, as we had no means at hand with which we could do so. He was recaptured the same day by Philadelphia police officers, his fifth escape attempt at this prison. So with renewed energy we made our way up amid showers of lead. The Indians had been pouring in volleys upon us long before I had been awakened and they were still at it. Thompson was a genuine everyman sort of hero who was wounded in Benteen's desperate, do-or-die charge to clear the head of the ravine on the night of June 25, 1876. 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 Sargeant told me of the hopelessness of the undertaking telling me if I should ever attempt to make the trip I would never get back alive. 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. I knew I would have to act quickly if I was to save my life, so dismounting from my horse, which had carried me so many miles, I dashed down into the ravine toward the bushes; but the sudden flight of a flock of birds from that point caused me to turn aside and I made a bee line for the pillar of rocks above me. Just as I was thinking of getting up, I heard an order given by a Sioux chief. Sumas, WA 98295 The first man we recognized was Sargeant Knipe [Sgt. A man, by the name of McVey [Trumpeter David McVeigh], to whom I handed the canteen that he might drink seemed determined to keep it in his possession. He released my hand and seemed satisfied and then I began to realize what the promise I had made meant. 6 distinct works Similar authors. 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. 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. On July 27, 2013, 1,000 inmates escaped from the Queyfiya prison near. During a 2 hour window of opportunity, Peter Thomson broke out from the education wing onto the grounds and promptly made his way over the prison wall. "The Common Discourse of the Whole Nation: Jack Sheppard and the Art of Escape", in. So fierce did she look that my hand involuntarily sought the handle of my revolver. When the Fotki album comes up, click on the first picture for a larger view. 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. So I commenced to search around for them. He had met Jackson when on the trail on the top of the hill but a short distance from the place where it turned towards the village. He had his gun in his hand and his eyes fixed on the grove of timber across the river watching for the enemy. On August 27, 1995, multiple prisoners escaped from, In April 1998, the Belgian child molester, Martin Gurule escaped from the Texas Death Row at. I made my way as rapidly as possible toward the bank of the river. This gave the savages a good opportunity to close in on us and they were not long in doing so. "Well," I thought, "I will get along anyway." In spring 2017, Rick tried to have Supergirl free Peter by threatening Alex Danvers ' life. Capt. No one was more hostile to Thompson, though, than Walter Mason Camp, the most rigidly wrong-headed of the early American collectors of eye-witness accounts of the battle. The officers were riding in order, a little in advance of their respective companies. I was glad to see him safe, it gave me renewed courage, and we hoped that we would soon be entirely safe. I told him I would get him some if I lived. BUT WHAT ABOUT the "problematic passages" in Thompson's story? He added, "If they succeed, it will be a sad day with us.". The noise they made resembled the howling of a coyote and the squealing of a cat. Related Goals. Peter Thompson went on to be wounded in Frederick Benteen's desperate, do-or-die charge to clear the head of the ravine that night, and then the next morning, before he had his wounds bandaged, he went for water for a dying friend as part of the extremely dangerous water brigade. 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. 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. The other two brought their guns to their shoulders and aimed at me. He escaped from prison after serving only one month of his sentence. Beyond the village was a black mass of ponies grazing on the short green grass. While I looked at them, one rose to his feet and beckoned for us in the most friendly manner to advance. Being in our present predicament, we were utterly powerless to help as we wished we could. The three men were arrested a couple of weeks later and returned to the same facility. Is this "impossible"? See Mysteries of the Little Bighorn for more info. Box 393 I was disappointed with my place of defense. He and other prisoners dressed as prison guards and escaped via ladders across the prison yard to the wall. Fifeshire, Scotland. But finally the poor animal gained his feet with a groan, and Finkle passed on with a rush to overtake our company. 12 members of the Jewish underground groups, In 1971, a 45 meter long tunnel was dug and 111 political prisoners, including future, On 10 June 1977, the convicted murderer of, On 23 September 1977, a group of seven prisoners, including. 2. Updated April 24, 2011, The Eye-witness Chronology The sight of this increased our courage. Let's look first at the incident Thompson observed on the banks of the Little Bighorn River, where he said a Crow scout appeared with a Sioux woman on a tether moments before Custer himself rode into sight and ordered the woman released. I peeped over the fallen tree and saw a group of mounted Indians gesticulating, grunting out their words, and pointing towards the advancing cavalry. 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. We were ever on the alert, but could see very little on account of the underbrush. I began to get very angry and climbed to the top of the bank in no dignified manner. The question may be asked why we attempted to join our commands after two hours and a half. While packing my ammunition in order to carry it easily, I glanced up in the direction I had to go, and for the .life of me, I could not see how I could possibly get there alive for the bullets of the Indians were ploughing up the sand and gravel in every direction; but it was my duty to go. Hats off to the leadership & teams at WEF who've had the vision and commitment to make this so. I turned around and made my way through the midst of several citizen packers who accompanied us on our expedition. 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. Lucky indeed was that soldier who died when he was first shot, for what mercy could he expect from a Sioux. He escaped from Nottingham Prison after sneaking through the locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall. About Peter Thomson Peter lives in Canberra, which most people mistake for the capital of Australia, and passes the time writing and telling stories to children. While meditating on the uncertainty of life, a bullet struck the box behind which I lay, and as I heard the lead crashing through its contents, I wondered if the time had come for me to wear a pair of wings. He escaped two times with a helicopter. Then others may ask why we did not go sooner. Thomson is the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for the ocean. I jumped behind one of the fallen cottonwood trees; where Watson went, I could not at the time tell. We all knew that the Indians never fought after night fall. Thompson escaped from custody. Weir. 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. The Indians seemed determined to exterminate us if possible. It was just the way Custer and his mercinary scouts did business. Tom Custer, 1st Lieut. This, for a time, seemed to deter him for he laid down his gun and commenced work at his former occupation. Sentenced to life imprisonment as a fourth time offender, he was transferred to the Philadelphia County Prison. Join Facebook to connect with Peter Thomson and others you may know. But our men were still on the alert. I did not want to get under the canvas where the wounded were as that was already overcrowded, so I crawled under one of the horses which was standing in a group with the others. He had made the mistake of placing the box the wrong way, the edge of the crackers toward the outside. Although America has ignored Peter Thompson for nearly 100 years, you really can't understand what happened at the Little Bighorn without listening closely to what Peter Thompson said. 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. 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. "Movie Made Escaped Convict Go Back to Charleston Prison". I skirmished around and found two more of my company slightly wounded. Suddenly they broke up and advanced toward my place of concealment. The best result we found for your search is Peter Thomson age 70s in Laconia, NH. I then told him as it was now my turn I would proceed to the business. He asked, "What is the matter?" When he saw my maneauvers, he took aim at me and shot. Crow scout Running Wolf described how "Custer went ahead to look for a trail for the wagons" in the Bad Lands, and both Daniel Kanipe and John Ryan described how Custer left his command and rode ahead with just Chief Trumpeter Henry Voss and a few scouts on the morning of June 25. P.O. He was initially sentenced to a 30-year jail term for a murder committed during the robbery of a security van in 1997. A short distance from me was a man belonging to Company A. James Bennett. When I was handing his back to him I noticed that the three Indians had discovered us and were watching our every movement. "Back in Prison After Restful Sojourn Here". From the Belle Fourche Bee, Belle Fourche, SD, December 1913. Wherever they attacked, our men were always ready. On looking around, I saw a white man and what I supposed to be a Crow Indian. 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. Looking to see where the water was deepest, I made a few leaps which landed me in the water with a loud splash.
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