The redskins, when within a half mile, began circling around the fort, firing several shots into it.
While this circling movement was taking place, the soldiers observed that the whole village had packed up and was on the move.

The mounted warriors remained behind some little time, to give their families an opportunity to get away.

At last they circled the Post several times more, fired a few parting shots, and then galloped over the prairie to overtake the fast-departing village.

On their way they surprised and killed a party of woodchoppers on Pawnee Fork, as well as a party of herders guarding beef cattle.
The soldiers with the wagon I had opportunely met at the crossing had been out looking for the bodies of these victims, seven or eight in all.

Under the circumstances it was not surprising that the report of our guns should have persuaded the garrison that Satanta's men were coming back to make their threatened assault.
There was much excitement at the Post.