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Custer and Little Bighorn: 135 years ago and questions remain
The Dickinson Press ^ | June 25, 2011

Posted on 06/25/2011 8:15:40 PM PDT by EveningStar

Today marks the 135 anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn near present day Garryowen, Mont. After all this time the death of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer remains a mystery.

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KEYWORDS: custer; godsgravesglyphs; history; littlebighorn
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Q: What did Custer say when he saw the Indians coming?
A: Here come the Indians.
1 posted on 06/25/2011 8:15:48 PM PDT by EveningStar
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Bump for later read...


2 posted on 06/25/2011 8:18:20 PM PDT by bcsco
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To: EveningStar
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3 posted on 06/25/2011 8:18:20 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: EveningStar
Custer and Little Bighorn: 135 years ago and questions remain

Here's the answer: Shoulda brought along a few of these.


4 posted on 06/25/2011 8:19:52 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: onedoug

ping


5 posted on 06/25/2011 8:20:33 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: EveningStar

Famous last words:

Nathan Hale: “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”

Gen. Stonewall Jackson: “Carry me across the river, boys, and let me rest under the shade of the trees.”

Gen. George Custer: “WHERE DID ALL THOSE F@#$%#G INDIANS COME FROM!!!?”

;^)


6 posted on 06/25/2011 8:20:59 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport Muslims. Nuke Mecca. Death to Islam. Freedom for mankind.")
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To: EveningStar

No, the death of Custer is possibly the least of the unknowns about that day. What remains a unknown is not how he died, but when during the battle he died. Yet, that isn’t all that of a mystery...


7 posted on 06/25/2011 8:21:40 PM PDT by bcsco
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To: EveningStar

Custer screwed up - big time.


8 posted on 06/25/2011 8:22:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Pimpin' for Perry)
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To: EveningStar

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9 posted on 06/25/2011 8:22:56 PM PDT by Gator113 ("GAME ON." I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: Yo-Yo

The Indians had better rifles than Custer’s men.


10 posted on 06/25/2011 8:23:14 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Yo-Yo

They were available. Custer’s decision was to not take them. And possible they wouldn’t have survived the march from the Yellowstone to the site of the battle.


11 posted on 06/25/2011 8:23:54 PM PDT by bcsco
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Q: What color was the ground at Little Big Horn?
A (highlight): White. Those Indians kept coming and coming and coming.
12 posted on 06/25/2011 8:24:40 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Paladin2

That’s too easy an answer. It’s far more involved than that.


13 posted on 06/25/2011 8:25:29 PM PDT by bcsco
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To: EveningStar

14 posted on 06/25/2011 8:25:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Paladin2

I know.


15 posted on 06/25/2011 8:25:45 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

That miserably-written “article” confuses more than it enlightens...


16 posted on 06/25/2011 8:25:54 PM PDT by TXnMA (There is no Constitutional right to NOT be offended.)
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To: EveningStar

Trumpeter Martin, galloping on a horse that day, with a message to Captain Benteen from Custer, was heard to shout to some of Major Reno’s men as he went by, “We’ve got ‘em now, boys!”


17 posted on 06/25/2011 8:26:03 PM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority (What this country needs is an enema.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Those were considered way too technical for ordinary dumb soldiers to comprehend back in Custer’s day - kinda like giving a computer to a truck driver twenty years ago. That’s the reason the army initially classified the Gatling gun as an artillery piece.


18 posted on 06/25/2011 8:26:06 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: EveningStar

The battle field is closer to Crow Agency.


19 posted on 06/25/2011 8:27:45 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Pimpin' for Perry)
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To: EveningStar

Was it possible Custer had nearsighted vision, and couldn’t see distant objects/ people?


20 posted on 06/25/2011 8:28:19 PM PDT by LucyT
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