What testimony was this? In what court? It wasn't the Reno Court of Inquiry. Please provide details as this is interesting stuff.
Just to let you know further what I have, In W. A. Graham's "The Custer Myth", page #336, there is a document titled "EDGERLY'S STATEMENT TO HEIN". It reads "(From "Memories of Long Ago," by Lieut.-Col. O. L. Hein, (1925), pp. 143-45)
"On June 25th (1886) the tenth anniversary of Custer's last fight was celebrated at the Post (Fort Custer), by a reunion of the surviving officers of the Little Big Horn campaign, including my old friend and classmate, Captain W. S. Edgerly, at the conclusion of which a number of the officers and ladies of the garrison made a visi to the battlefields.
"Interesting information with reference to Custer's campaign was imparted to me by Edgerly in the following account that he indited for me: Extract from General Terry's Order to Custer.
"'The Department Commander desires that on the way up the Rosebud you should thoroughly examine the upper part of Tulloch's Creek.'
"When we arrived in the neighborhood of Tullock's Creek we ran on a hot trail that led straight to the Indian village. It would have been useless to scout this creek, for we knew the Indians were in front of us."
While this is second-hand, it shows Edgerly giving a different account of any scout of Tullock's Creek. What Edgerly is stating here is that "in the neighborhood of Tullock's Creek" obviously means at the Busby camp (or at the stop just below the Crow's Nest), and the trail described was the one up Davis Creek and over the divide "that led straight to the Indian village".
In addition, in the same volume, beginning at page #261, there is the written letter by George Herendeen, scout, to the Bozeman Herald published January 22, 1878. In it he confirmed my story in an earlier post that he was to report back to the Terry command, that Custer did ask him earlier on the 24th to scout Tullock's Fork and was told they would be in a better location later to do so. He states he told Custer that they were going in the right direction and "I could only follow his trail" meaning he wouldn't go any other way than they were already headed. There is nothing further in his letter about any subsequent scout of Tullock's Creek.
I'd appreciate any specific details on the evidence you have. AS you can see, it throws a different light on events the day before the battle. And myself and others would appreciate having any and all concrete source evidence there is.
Custer took special attention to the Tullocks Creek area and moved on only when he was sure that nothing was there. He didn’t SCOUT the entire area, but made halts to give time to his scouts to do so.
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“The march during the day was tedious. We made many long halts, so as not to get ahead of the scouts, who seemed to be doing their work thoroughly, giving special attention to the right, toward Tulloch’s Creek, the valley of which was in general view from the divide. Once or twice signal smokes were reported in that direction, but investigation did not confirm the reports.”
Lieutenant Godfrey
Century Magazine, in Graham, The Custer Myth, pages 124 to 150)