The Battle of Pumpkin Creek, also known as the Volborg fight, was fought February 7–8, 1880, by United States Soldiers, and Scouts, against Sioux warriors.

The surviving worker reported the incident to Fort Keogh, and Sergeant Thaddeus B. Glover, Corporal Edwards, Private Charles W. Gurnsey, Private George E. Douglass, and four other soldiers of Company B, 2nd United States Cavalry Regiment, and seven Indian scouts were ordered out on February 5, in search of the Lakota responsible.

[2] On February 7, 1880, after a pursuit of about 65 miles (105 km), the small detachment of 15 soldiers and Indian scouts under Sergeant Glover located a group of six Lakota Sioux Warriors near Pumpkin Creek.

Private George E. Douglass exposed himself too far over the edge of a ridge and was immediately spotted by a warrior who fired, killing him instantly.

The engagement was decided when Company F, of the 5th United States Infantry Regiment under the command of Captain Simon Snyder arrived the next morning from Fort Keogh.

[3] The action as recalled by Sergeant Glover: We had been creeping and floundering through the drifts for some time, keeping as quiet as possible and taking every precaution to screen ourselves from the watchful eyes of the Indians in the hollow below.

A private in the troop, in the other wing, had pushed too far forward in his eagerness to get a shot, and exposed his body to view over the snow-covered ridge for an instant.

Under cover of darkness I sent a courier back to Colonel Miles asking for a Gatling gun, then disposed my men around the hostile camp, forming a chain guard.