The real score is:
Custer : 3 (two battles of the Yellowstone, 1 Washita)
Indians : 1
But that was in a different series...........
Yeah except Little Big Horn was win or go home. Or in this case, die.
The real score is:
Custer : 3 (two battles of the Yellowstone, 1 Washita)
Indians : 1
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Then to use the American football analogy, the score should be:
Indians: 8
Custer: 7
Custer scored 2 safeties and kicked a field goal, but on the last play of the game, the Indians scored a touchdown, and went for the win by going for a 2 point conversion, on which they were successful.
I’m not educated on this topic well enough to argue the merits of one side or the other, but given that Custer died on the battlefield, it would be hard to give him the winning score.
Wahista is known as the Washita Massacre, or to the Cheyenne, the Lodge Pole Massacre. Custer claimed to have killed about 100 men, but it was closer to 11 braves, and 90 old men, women and children.
The day before, Black Kettle had tried to surrender to US forces, only to be rejected by Hazen, who directed them to talk to Phil Sheridan. The following morning Custer's men attacked at dawn, opening fire on the village. The majority of the women and children killed were shot in the back beside or in the river while attempting to escape. After the massacre was over, Custer's men slaughtered some 800 Cheyenne horses. Custer reported that he had captured all their meat, meal, flour, everything they possessed, burned their lodges, leaving the site unfit for habitation.
This of course, is a few years after Chivington's 700 men massacred some 200 Cheyenne at Sand Creek (his men took over 100 scalps, many of them pubic from the women.)
For Custer, payback was a b***h.
Yes, but the Indians won the big one!