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If you read through the books on the Archelogical digs done in the mid to late 1980's at the Last Stand site you can actually trace the movements of Indians during the battle by the shell casings they left behind..and there is that Winchester 73 that they can trace..

The Indians were well armed with a wide variety of firearms, including a large number of Winchester lever 66's and 73's. Think of it as being over whelmed by a swarm of bees..the Indians say it took about as long as it would take a hungry man to eat his dinner. It was a route, where Calhouns Troop skirmish line broke and ran with Captains Keoghs Troop's following running towards Custer on Last Stand Hill. At the end some 30Troopers led by Mitch Boyer tried to break out towards a ravine...none made it.

The other 6 Troops under Reno and Benteen held out surrounded on a bluff over looking the LBH river for the next day and a half...until the Indians skedaddled when the Gibbons relief column came up. There Voit and 3 other Troopers stood on the bluff firing and driwing Indian fire while 24 Troopers went down a ravine to get water. That was the action that Voit was awarded the MH for. Windrolph who was one of the four Troopers to draw fire was among the 14 cavalrymen to go with Benteen and Godffrey to view the massacre site. I believe Voit being one of Benteen's company H veterans was among those 14.