Posted on 01/21/2019 12:17:14 AM PST by vannrox
Long ago I read a book about the western frontier in the mid 18th century. One torture account really stuck with me. The Indians opened up your abdomen, tied one end of your intestines to a stake, and forced you to walk around the stake, winding your intestines thereupon.
Not sure if it is true, but how ghastly and horrible that would be.
Custer was born in Michigan.
Doesn’t that make him a “Native American” too?
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Pleasanton's reputation has not fared well, but one of his great services to the cause was to promote three young officers -- Custer, Elon Farnsworth and Wesley Merritt -- to brigade command. They were chosen quite specifically for their aggressiveness, the idea being to get out and smoke Jeb Stuart. Farnworth was killed at Gettysburg (at age 25), but Custer and Merritt emerged, along with Tom Devin, as a highly competent command trio that in 1863-64 slowly wrested cavalry dominance away from the confederates. John Buford might well have figured prominently in this command evolution as his star had steadily risen, but he fell ill and died in the winter of 1863. It's a small world department: one of Buford's aides at the time of his death, and present at the bedside, was Myles Keough, who would die with Custer at the Little Bighorn. Devin was one of Buford's brigade commanders at Gettysburg.
But we have made so much progress beyond what the left wants for us. There's always some lefty idiot trying to stir trouble. It will be up to us conservatives, to unite all our people in common cause for freedom and to build a future for all of us together.
Keough was born in Ireland and as a young man volunteered to fight for the Pope in the Italian wars of the time. He served gallantly, became an officer in the Papal forces, and was for a time a member of the Irish company in the Vatican Guard. When peacetime service in the Vatican proved boring, he came to America to find adventure. In this, he succeeded. He was a classic 19th century soldier of fortune and adventurer.
Keough's most colorful Civil War moment came at Port Republic in the 1862 Valley Campaign, when he led the Union cavalry detachment, ranging ahead of Shields' division, that dashed unexpectedly into town and almost captured Stonewall Jackson and his staff. The confederates had been preoccupied with Fremont's command approaching from the west. They had beaten Fremont at the Battle of Cross Keys the previous day and had been careless about Shields' approach from the north, which led to the close-run Battle of Port Republic.
There are many accounts through the centuries detailing the sort of things Indians did to captives.
Custer wrote articles for a hunting magazine. He boasted about perfecting the technique of shooting a buffalo with a pistol on a dead run. What he didn’t mention was that he shot 2 horses out from under him in perfecting the process.
One interesting thing I heard several times during military history and strategy classes was that Custer had two horse-drawn Gatling Guns available to him, but left them at the fort because he thought they’d slow him down.
Bet he regretted that decision later on.
Also, on the monuments at Little Big Horn listing the Indians killed there, is one brave named “Plenty Lice”.
Bet he was really popular.
A quick Google search found this:
9. Tying Intestines Around a TreeOkay, the technical term for this is disembowelment, which has been a pretty common practice throughout history. But there have been rare cases where the victims' intestines were pulled out, tied/nailed to a tree and then they were made to run around the tree which resulted in eventual death. The tree below is one in Cuylerville, NY, where in 1779, Lt. Thomas Boyd was tortured and killed when Seneca chief Little Beard tied his intestines around the tree and made him run around it.
Reno had ordered his detachment to dismount after he crossed the river, instead of charging hellbent into the Indian encampment. He turned his cavalry into badly outnumbered infantry, which got torn to pieces once the Indians counterattacked.
How did the Indians obtain their superior firepower?
It is amazing to me that almost every american knows about custer. Graduated last in his class and managed to get his entire company wiped out. How many know about Ranald S Mackenzie? In same west point class as custer , but graduated at top of class. was able to defeat and force onto reservation the comanche indian tribe without losing a single man at palo duro canyon. Found their winter camp and destroyed their food supplies and more importantly their pony herd. They were forced to walk to oklahoma reservation or starve.
From gun runners.
“If this man got a couple of miles away before shooting himself, his body may have been missed, but we just don’t know. It’s one of the remaining mysteries of the Custer fight.”
This may be of interest to you:
last survivor of custer’s last stand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsWZ41mHY4M
That’s not Custer - he was in Virginia in May, 1864.
Indeed so.
By the way, Custer was promoted 5 ranks that day !
It would have been interesting to see what Farnsworth would have contributed had he not had the misfortune of getting killed immediately.
The promotion was just before Gettysburg.
In the movie, they portray the promotion as a mistake, that the generals were going to punish Custer, and accidentally signed his name to the promotion document instead in the confusion of battle.
However, given that Pleasanton promoted all three at once, and that Custer was his aide, it seems to me the promotion was deliberate.
Custer immediately set to work making his special uniform.
However, it was just a few days later that Custer, in disobedience of a direct order to move his forces, stayed and helped fight Jebs cavalry in the east Gettysburg battle.
Lees plan was a pincer move. The Cavalry was to arrive in the rear.
Had not Custer stayed and stopped the confederate cavalry, the battle may have been lost. It was a close enough run as it was.
Custer led his cavalry charges in repeated charges and saved the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9flLRKJivI
https://www.sierratoysoldier.com/ourstore/pc/Custer-Charge-at-Gettysburg-c1234.htm
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