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To: White Lives Matter

Here is White Cow Bull’s narrative on Custer being hit at the Medicine Tail Coulee River crossing.

https://www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/white_cow_bull_little_big_horn.html

That is one story.

Rain-in-the-Face, a Sioux Chief, describes an organized defense along the battleridge with multiple officers pointing and barking orders to their soldiers to dismount and fire suppressive volleys.

Another Indian account by a woman (forget her name) states Custer was after the women and children to capture them and got all the way to the National Cemetery location but couldn’t cross. He took Co F with him to that point. The total collapse of his east wing (Keogh and Calhoun) brought about a bunch of those surviving soldiers running for their lives on foot over the hills and Custer seeing them - ditched his plans for offense and went immediately into defensive mode with what little soldiers he had left (80 at this point?).

This is what makes this battle so interesting. We’ll never know the real deal.


68 posted on 06/25/2021 4:43:53 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I can’t believe that Custer was killed at MTC and they continued to move north in an offensive posture.


77 posted on 06/25/2021 5:20:19 PM PDT by Sgt. Stryker ("Saddle Up, Saddle Up")
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Thanks for that link. Fascinating reading.


93 posted on 06/25/2021 6:56:08 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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