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To: dsc

Yes very good list there and may I add two more?

Check out Lawrence Frost with these two if you wish to get a more intimate portrait of who the man Custer was:

The Custer Album (tons of pics you’ll never find on the internet)
Custer’s 7th Cav and the Campaign of 1873 (very hard to find)

You’ll get an idea of his tactics and why he thought the way he did in the 2nd one - it forshadows his movements and tactics for LBH.


95 posted on 06/25/2021 7:12:29 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Thanks once more. Can’t wait to see those pictures.


97 posted on 06/25/2021 7:14:52 PM PDT by dsc (Abortion is the axe laid to the roots of the tree of human rights.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“You’ll get an idea of his tactics and why he thought the way he did...”

He employed the same tactics at LBH that he used in November, 1868 against Black Kettle’s Cheyenne village on the Washita. And that nearly got his entire command wiped out, because (as has been noted), he failed to reconnoiter the area before he attacked. Unbeknownst to Custer was that the Black Kettle village was a smaller, satellite village of a much larger concentration further on down the river; and it was warriors from that larger village that came up and wiped out Major Joel Elliott’s small band that had gone after some fleeing Cheyenne.


115 posted on 06/25/2021 8:19:41 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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