For their crushing defeat, and the killing of the chief, General Carr and the command were complimented in General Orders.
Mrs.Weichel was cared for in the Post hospital.

After her recovery she married the hospital steward.

Her former husband had been killed by the Indians.

Our prisoners were sent to the Whetstone Agency, on the Missouri, where Spotted Tail and the friendly Sioux were then living.
The captured horses and mules were distributed among the officers and soldiers.
Among the animals which I thus obtained were my Tall Bull horse and a pony which I called Powder Face.

This animal figured afterward in the stories of "Ned Buntline," and became famous.
One day, while we were waiting at Fort McPherson, General Carr received a telegram announcing that the Indians had made a dash on the Union Pacific, killing several section men and running off stock of O'Fallen's Station.