Famous Battery "E" of 1st Artillery These brave men and the Hotchkiss gun that Big Foots Indians thought were toys, together with the fighting 7th whats left of Gen Custers boys, sent 200 Indians to that Heaven which the ghost dancer enjoys This checked the Indian noise and Gen Miles with staff returned to Illinois, 1891. Fifteen military men in uniform posed with three Hotchkiss guns in front of army tents. The cannon are Hotchkiss Mountain Guns of 1.65 in. They are sometimes referred to as Mountain Rifles.