BTW: I'm given to understand the the BLB is still taught at West Point as how not to execute a battle plan. Hell, every one's got to be good for something!!!
Probably the same thing could be said of Joan d' Arc!
One may even go so far as to say the defeat at the LBH had its roots at the Washita. It was there that the divisions within the 7th Cavalry, between those faithful to Custer and those opposed to him, really began to take root. And the animosities that grew out of the Washita were still there on June 25th, 1876.