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The casualty statistics have never been accurately pinpointed, however; the most consistent numbers claim that 103 Indians were killed and 53 taken hostage. The 7th Cavalry suffered twenty-one killed, including Major Elliot, and fourteen wounded, including T.W. Custer.<ref>Gibson, quoted in Chandler, 21.</ref> The following decade proved to be even more bloody and destructive as the vile Indian Wars continued in the American West.
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