Yes! I had read about Custer being hit fording the river in his retreat to set up a defensive position. That’s why I was asking. It would explain why his men were in disarray.
Here is White Cow Bull’s narrative on Custer being hit at the Medicine Tail Coulee River crossing.
https://www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/white_cow_bull_little_big_horn.html
That is one story.
Rain-in-the-Face, a Sioux Chief, describes an organized defense along the battleridge with multiple officers pointing and barking orders to their soldiers to dismount and fire suppressive volleys.
Another Indian account by a woman (forget her name) states Custer was after the women and children to capture them and got all the way to the National Cemetery location but couldn’t cross. He took Co F with him to that point. The total collapse of his east wing (Keogh and Calhoun) brought about a bunch of those surviving soldiers running for their lives on foot over the hills and Custer seeing them - ditched his plans for offense and went immediately into defensive mode with what little soldiers he had left (80 at this point?).
This is what makes this battle so interesting. We’ll never know the real deal.