The Plaque reads

"Famous Battery "K" of the 1st Artillery

These brave men and the Hotchkiss guns that

Big Foot's Indians thought were toys,

Together with the fighting 7th what's

Left of Gen. Custer's 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."