The Dakota Column reaches the Powder River and prepares to move north to meet a steamer sent out along the Yellowstone to resupply them, while the Montana and Wyoming Columns continue their converging marches.

A large storm sets in as the three columns converge, leading to a rough night in Montana, while the Wyoming Column observes the lightning flashing the in the distant clouds over the Bighorn Mountains.

All three columns move, as Gibbon sets out to rendezvous with Terry at the Powder River. Meanwhile, Crook reaches the abandoned ruins of Fort Phil Kearney.

Resupply and reinforcement arrives at the Monta Column’s camp, while the Dakota and Wyoming columns continue to march toward Sitting Bull’s main camp along the Rosebud.

The Dakota Column moves out, changing direction when word is received via courier of the massive village located by Gibbon on the Rosebud. In Wyoming, Crook’s men move out from Fort Reno, encountering enemy pickets but no actual fighting, at least as of yet.

The Dakota and Montana Columns remain bivouacked, while the Wyoming Column reaches the abandoned Fort Reno, encamping their while scouts move ahead to locate the friendly Crow warriors that were to rendezvous with them there.

A snowstorm halts the advance of the Dakota Column, while the Wyoming Column pushes onward, stopping just short of Fort Reno after a march through rain and sleet.

Cold weather sweeps in at the end of May, slowing both the Dakota and Wyoming Columns, while runoff swells the banks of the Yellowstone near the Montana Column encampment.

The Dakota Column halts on the Little Missouri as Custer takes some men and makes a reconnaissance searching for the hostile encampment, while the Wyoming Column advances as far as the Little Cheyenne River.

The Dakota Column finally reaches the Little Missouri, finding none of the Sioux that intelligence expected to be there. Meanwhile, the Wyoming Column finally moves out from Fort Fetterman, marching northward toward the old Fort Reno.

The Dakota Column begins its arduous march through the badlands, while the Montana Column moves to reinforce in the face of the large threat located to their south.

The Dakota Column enters the badlands after a navigational mishap by Custer, while the scouts of the Montana Column locate a massive village near the Rosebud, as Gibbon decides to wait until he makes contact with Terry before attacking.

The Dakota Column makes its last camp on the prairies before descending into the badlands, approaching the suspected location of Sitting Bull’s encampment, along the Little Missouri River.

A day of little action, with the Dakota Column making almost twenty miles and the Montana Column encountering no hostiles at its static position.

The Dakota Column makes a long march to the Green River, while a minor sighting of the enemy causes a minor stir at the Montana Column’s encampment.

The Dakota Column makes a shorter march to Young Man’s Butte, setting up camp in an area with abundant freshwater, firewood and forage before continuing west toward the badlands.

The Dakota Columns makes excellent time despite a wagon mishap, while the Montana Column holds its position along the Yellowstone without incident.

As the weather finaly begins to clear for the Dakota Column, the Montana Column has confirmed contact with Sioux on the southern side of the Yellowstone, bracing for an attack on the morning of the 22nd.

Foul weather slows the advance of both the Dakota and Montana Columns, while a small skirmish erupts near the Rosebud with Crow scouts under Gibbon’s command as they Lakota in the area.

Sitting Bull and his band reach the Rosebud Creek, while the Federal advance continues, as Gibbon tries and fails to cross the Yellowstone River, instead setting into a holding pattern to contain the hostiles and prevent their escape toward Canada.