This Date in History: September 4

On the morning of September 4, 1877, two cavalry columns moved against Crazy Horse’s village, but found that it had scattered the previous night.  Crazy Horse fled to the nearby Spotted Tail Agency.  After meeting with army officials at the adjacent military post of Camp Sheridan, Crazy Horse agreed to return to Fort Robinson with First Lieutenant Jesse M. Lee, later of Reno Inquiry fame, currently the Indian agent at Spotted Tail.  (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gold and Guns: The 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition and the Battle of Lodge Grass Creek)

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Erich Fellgiebel, Army General of Signal Troops, born October 4, 1886 in Pöpelwitz/Breslau (Silesia); chief of the Wehrmacht signal office; conspirator in the plot to assassinate Hitler; sentenced to death by the People’s Court (Volksgericht); executed by hanging September 4, 1944 at Plötzensee prison in Berlin.  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1000-Year Reich)