I get annoyed when people make fun of the 7th Cavalry, because they were American GIs fighting for us, and I usually ask how the American POWs were treated by the victors in that battle, as people so enthusiastically praise the Indians as the good guys and almost heroes.
***I get annoyed when people make fun of the 7th Cavalry, because they were American GIs fighting for us,***
People don’t realize that Custer went against a larger force of Sioux and Cheyenne who had just invaded the CROW territory. The CROW were our allies against the Hostile Sioux, Cheyenne, and Blackfoot tribes.
As for torture, if a person was captured the torture began immediately. First the soles of the feet were sliced off and it was a long walk back to the Indian camp.
I laugh at a Remington painting of a cavalryman taken prisoner. He still has his boots on.