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Testimony of Private Peter Thompson
PRIVATE THOMPSON'S TESTIMONY ON MAJOR RENO source: Robert Nightengale, Little Big Horn, FarWest Publishing, 1996, p.164 As I stood looking at [Major Reno] I could not help wondering if he knew what his duty was. Here he was with about four hundred men...
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Reno's position in the timber : a good one
RENO IN THE TIMBER Reno attracted the Indians by attacking them, and Fred Gerard and Sergeant Davern, Reno's orderly, said that it was exactly what Custer wanted : "to bring Indians to battle" (Gerard). Not to "charge the village", as Reno said in 1879,...
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Black Kettle, not a peaceful leader
BLACK KETTLE source: Chief Black Kettle, by historian Gregory F. Michno, custerwest.org member and author of several important Custer books, Wild West magazine, December 2005, History Net "After all the efforts of both sides, the treaty lasted only until...
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Testimonies about Indian casualties
INDIAN CASUALTIES Interpreter George Herendeen said that the Indian casualties was at least as great as Custer's casulaties. Indian agent James McLaughlin said that the high Indian casualties were certain. Yellow Horse said that 83 warriors died on the...
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General Custer in the Civil War
George Armstrong Custer: Between Myth and Reality By Historian Jeffry D. Wert, author of "Custer, the controversial life of George A. Custer" (1996) March/April 2006 issue of Civil War Times Magazine. History Net George Armstrong Custer stalks America's...
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US General in chief Nelson A Miles on LBH (video)
General Miles talked about the Little Big Horn Read Miles' "Personal Recollections" here : The Custer Massacre , pp. 212-220 Visiting Custer battlefield, pp. 283-293 NELSON APPLETON MILES US General in chief Nelson A. Miles (1839-), American soldier,....
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Little Sioux's account of the battle
Account by an Arikara scout LITTLE SIOUX'S STORY source: The Arikara Narrative of Custer's Campaign against the Hostile Dakotas, June 1876, pages 149 - 157 IT WAS EARLY in the morning, just at sunrise, and there came down from the butte, Red Star and...
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Terry's orders to Custer - Carte blanche
TERRY'S ORDERS Annual Report of the Secretary of War for 1876, which is House Executive Document 1 for the second session of the Forty-fourth Congress (Serial volume 1742), page 462 Headquarters of the Department of Dakota (In the Field) Camp at Mouth...
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The Sioux at Little Bighorn
SIOUX WARRIORS AT LITTLE BIGHORN Montana University American Horse (Wasico Tasunke) (14); Oglala Chief, leader of the Bear People band (12); son of Sitting Bear (11); his brother also fought in the battle (8); later a prominent chief at Pine Ridge Reservation;...
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Lieut. DeRudio and Private O'Neill
the outstanding story of two survivors hidden in the bushes near the Indian village DeRUDIO AND PRIVATE O'NEILL source: The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custerania, written and compiled by Colonel W.A. Graham, The Stackpole Co., pages 76 - 78 On June...
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Indian casualties: up to 500 ?
THE CAIRNS AT LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD source: Indian student of the Little Bighorn, LBHA message board, 2007 "300 warriors were killed and 200 died from their wounds." Sioux Warrior Red Hawk Indians marked the spot of the fallen with a pile of stones,...
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Elizabeth Custer, "Boots and Saddle"
Elizabeth Bacon Custer "BOOTS AND SADDLES" OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER Dedicated TO MY HUSBAND THE ECHO OF WHOSE VOICE HAS BEEN MY INSPIRATION. ONE of the motives that have actuated me in recalling these simple annals of our daily life, has...
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Waiting on Reno Hill
WAITING ON RENO HILL The witnesses make clear that after reaching Reno Hill, Major Reno wasn't under fire anymore. The warriors left him almost immediately, because they were watching the arrival of Captain Benteen and, close to him, the pack train (later,...
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Reno's behavior
Private John Burkman's account of RENO'S BEHAVIOR ON RENO HILL source: Old Neutriment, Glendolin Damon Wagner, Ruth Hill Publishers, Boston, MA, 1934 pages 166-171 "Long towards night o' the fust day -- the twentyfifth -- the smoke cleared some in the...
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Federal accounts of the Last Stand
HOLD THE LINE Federal accounts of the Last Stand Edited by David Cornut, author of "Little Bighorn, autopsy of a legendary battle" (published in French, 2006) - contact@custerwest.org sources : Graham, The Custer Myth, page 220 Scott, Fox, Connors, Archaeological...
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We must go to Custer!
" We must go to Custer!" WEIR versus RENO By David Cornut Author of “Little Bighorn, autopsie d’une bataille légendaire” (384 pages, France, 2006) ________________________ Sources : Hammer, Custer in ’76, page 71 Gray, Centennial Campaign, page 183 McClernand,...
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No threat around Reno Hill
NO WARRIORS AROUND RENO HILL WHILE SHOTS ARE HEARD By David Cornut Author of “Little Bighorn, autopsie d’une bataille légendaire” (384 pages, France, 2006) Sources quoted in text. contact@custerwest.org ___ While Custer’s 210 men were fighting Indians...
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Captain French on Reno
LITTLE BIGHORN CAMPAIGN Captain Thomas French was one of the few officers who weren't heard at the Reno Court of Inquiry, convened January 13, 1879. Reasons : he was highly critical of Major Reno's conduct during the whole battle. He considered Reno to...
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Indian accounts of the Last Stand
TO THE LAST MAN Indian accounts of the Last Stand Edited by David Cornut, author of "Little Bighorn, autopsy of a legendary battle" (published in French, 2006) - contact@custerwest.org sources : Michno, Lakota Noon, pages 52, 251-256, 260 Hardorff, Lakota...
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Lieutenant Varnum's account
VARNUM: THE LAST MORNING source: The Custer Myth by Colonel W.A. Graham, pages 342 - 343 Lieutenant Charles Varnum was the chief of scouts at the Little Bighorn. Here is one of his personal letter, written on July 4, 1876., about the morning before the...
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The Mary Adams controversy
The controversy that proved General Miles was right MAR(IA) ADAM'S AFFIDAVIT Maria Adams was Custer's black servant, like Eliza (in the picture) before her. After the battle of the Little Bighorn, General Terry stated that Custer had disobeyed orders....
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"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (2007)
Are you ready to be sermonized? HBO's 2007 BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE TV review By Virginia Heffernan, May 25, 2007 This project was doomed to overreach and to sermonize. To begin with, it’s about American Indians, who ever since Sacheen Littlefeather...
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Bretrayal at Little Bighorn
"I supposed General Custer able to take care of himself." Captain Benteen, 1879 BENTEEN'S SLOWNESS By David Cornut Author of “Little Bighorn, autopsie d’une bataille légendaire” (384 pages, France, 2006) Sources: Hammer, Custer in ’76, page 75 Hunt; I...
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A newspaper and the Washita campaign
A NEWSPAPER AND THE WASHITA VICTORY Emporia News Archives (from microfilm) Emporia News, August 21, 1868. INDIAN MASSACRE. We clip the following news from the Junction City Union of Saturday last. We stop the press to record an Indian outbreak of a horrible...
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Eyewitness : Red Horse
The Battle of Little Bighorn An Eyewitness Account by the Lakota Chief Red Horse recorded in pictographs and text at the Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881. Garrick Mallery, Picture Writing of the American Indians, 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of American...