CUSTER'S LAST STAND, SOME OF THE CLUES TO THE CASE FOR BETRAYAL

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...

TESTIMONIES ON RENO IN THE TIMBER Reno’s position [in the timber] was impregnable and nothing but fear could have prompted his retreat. __ Lieutenant DeRudio, Company M, 7th cavalry, after Little Bighorn (Sklenar, Larry, To Hell with Honor, p.365) ++...

2006 National Park Service study shows that 200 Indian warriors have been killed RESEARCHS FROM THE LITTLE BIG HORN BATTLEFIELD ON INDIAN CASUALTIES source: Friends of the Little Bighorn Association, 2006 summer event "From this vantage point we had a...

FAILED TO HOLD A LEG As it turned out I think Custer did make a mistake in going in with a divided force, not that the division of itself would have been fatal but because Reno failed to hold a leg even if he couldn’t skin. __ Lieutenant Edward Godfrey,...

Rewarded with rapid promotions, he became the youngest brigadier general at 23) and, later, major general in the Union Army. During the final six months of the war, Custer's men captured 111 artillery pieces, 65 battle flags, and 10,000 prisoners. It...

The real battle of the Washita (9:39)

INCOMPETENCE AND INDIFFERENCE Reno proved incompetent and Benteen showed his indifference – I will not use the uglier words that have often been in my mind. Both failed Custer and he had to fight it alone. […] Among the several things that impressed me...

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...