The field diary of Lt. Edward Settle Godfrey, commanding Co. K, 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer in the Sioux encounter at the Battle of the Little Big Horn : covering the period from May 17, 1876 when the expedition commanded by Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry left Ft. Abraham Lincoln, Bismarck Dakota Territory until the return of the battered regiment a few days after September 24, 1876, to the same place