George wishes he would have taken the Gatling guns with him.
George wishes he had waited for Benteen to catch up, kept his command together, and attacked into the southern end of the village with everything he had along the route he had Reno take.
Even this might not have worked but it was the best of the bad options. And if it didn't work, he could have made a fighting retreat in good order with his command together.
But with his command together he might have managed to cut off the village from the main horse herd (grazing west of the village). That leaves the women and kids fleeing afoot with the warriors trying to cover their flight on the one horse that a warrior often kept staked out close to his lodge. Fleeing afoot down river. Straight into the Terry-Gibbon column coming up river.
Given the numbers he was facing, George did not have enough men to be splitting his command up.
