The Grisly Epilogue of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

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  • @risinbison1106
    @risinbison1106 3 місяці тому +123

    I’ve visited many battle sites but Little Big Horn was, to me anyway, the loneliest as it sits out on the prairie. I wondered as I was there if any soldiers, knowing their impending doom, looked about and thought, I’m dying for this? I suggest you visit it in the offseason when you’re the only one there. It makes a powerful impact.

    • @jeffreyvaughn1838
      @jeffreyvaughn1838 3 місяці тому +15

      Yes, I visited in the dead of winter. I was alone. It was a profound experience.. like I could feel the ghosts, one of the best experiences in my life.

    • @jimvanbrocklin2060
      @jimvanbrocklin2060 3 місяці тому +9

      I have. You're spot on.

    • @leosemmler308
      @leosemmler308 2 місяці тому +10

      I took my elderly parents there once. I remember my plain-spoken father lookin around and saying, "Custer should have left the Indians have this damn place."

    • @blogengeezer4507
      @blogengeezer4507 2 місяці тому +2

      @@jeffreyvaughn1838 Feeling the 'spirits, the forever eternity tortured souls of the Un-saved, is very common on sites of mass tragedies. "We don't know what we don't know", exemplified. "Eternity, an extremely extended long time".
      'Believers' fully understand such, and are exempt... by Grace.. ;}

    • @makaha5750
      @makaha5750 2 місяці тому +3

      @@blogengeezer4507 Amen; Jesus is Lord.

  • @FredSmith-s5t
    @FredSmith-s5t 3 місяці тому +53

    I have been to Little Big Horn. If you have the time take the bus tour. The guides are VERY knowledgeable. Many interesting facts are revealed during the ride!

    • @jamesyoung6379
      @jamesyoung6379 26 днів тому

      A bus tour, they have bus tours... I've been there many times and never seen a bus tour.

  • @superbee-di5tp
    @superbee-di5tp 2 місяці тому +10

    My wife and I visited the Battlefield in 2016. We drove through it. I'm glad we did because you couldn't get off the tour bus to read all the signs. You could almost feel the tension and commotion going on there so many years ago.

  • @lonewolf5238
    @lonewolf5238 15 днів тому +5

    That's great plains country, vast, desolate and incredibly beautiful. But the one thing that hit hardest for me was the chilling realization that _there was no cover_ anywhere

  • @Donathon-f6f
    @Donathon-f6f 3 місяці тому +23

    Yep.... Sitting Bull warned them Not to do this or they would face disaster

  • @stevemiller2448
    @stevemiller2448 3 місяці тому +19

    To Julie Hudson, the reason students know several men went into the ravine was the army burial parties saw the bodies in a ravine down from Last Stand Hill. Therefore if the bodies were still there then (4 days after the battle) they had not been taken into the village.

  • @lorneomasta9559
    @lorneomasta9559 2 місяці тому +46

    I stopped there in 2011 on a cross country motorcycle trip. Not a big believer in ghosts or spirits, but there was something there.the hair on my neck stood up a few times. Never experienced that before.

    • @josephharnett5075
      @josephharnett5075 2 місяці тому

      Yes you are correct that was a bloody battle and not surprising there is alot of Spiritual activity on that battle ground I also felt that
      Erie feeling like as a alot of people have 🙁

    • @Wileybird03
      @Wileybird03 2 місяці тому +1

      I’ve heard that building is haunted n lots of stories of spirits n footsteps and noises at night

    • @Stanley7746
      @Stanley7746 Місяць тому

      The Eiffel Tower and St Mark's Square did that for me...sharing such an intense scene is amazing and pleasant.

    • @Vincent-n7o
      @Vincent-n7o 11 днів тому

      Yup.

    • @ljeff46
      @ljeff46 2 дні тому

      I visited the Civil War battlefield at Spotsylvania, Virginia one afternoon when no one else was there. It was summer and I could hear thunder off in the distance that sounded a lot like artillery. I had the same creepy feeling that you describe.

  • @ericstevens8744
    @ericstevens8744 3 місяці тому +13

    @havoscar…. More great Little Bighorn videos. Thank you !!!!

  • @richardcutt727
    @richardcutt727 3 місяці тому +137

    I very much doubt that Custer escaped mutilation. Likely the story of him found sleeping at rest with a smile on his face was for the benefit of Elizabeth Custer.

    • @Serjo777
      @Serjo777 3 місяці тому +7

      I remember hearing/reading the exact opposite, but I might be mistaken.

    • @Antonio-j1g
      @Antonio-j1g 3 місяці тому +15

      Custer is guilty of disobeying orders and consequently the death of his soldiers but, the criminal government at that time, made him a super eroe

    • @johnking7772
      @johnking7772 3 місяці тому +24

      It’s not hard to find documentation that he was mutilated. Nobody wanted to upset his wife’s “delicate sensibilities”. She must have been a bit of a fool to believe Custer was the only one not mutilated.

    • @lanzknecht8599
      @lanzknecht8599 3 місяці тому +16

      Custer was very much despised among the Indians. In a raid under his command against the Southern Cheyenne a large number of non-combatants had been killed. That earned him the nickname "squaw killer".

    • @willong1000
      @willong1000 3 місяці тому

      A simple browser search of "Custer's ears" or "Custer's penis" might enlighten the ignorant.

  • @juliehudson6539
    @juliehudson6539 3 місяці тому +50

    I'm stopping again because I think every Battle of bighorn students knows that there were soldiers that went into that ravine but they could never find the bodies maybe finding parts of soldiers in the camp means they captured some and took them back do the village and I'm sure it wasn't pretty

    • @nimitz1739
      @nimitz1739 3 місяці тому +9

      Counts from Indians that they did take soldiers into their camp. So you’re right on that point. During Reno’s retreat they said some troopers were Lassoed off their horses and drug back to the camps. They talk about it in this vid

    • @Fat12219
      @Fat12219 3 місяці тому +4

      😢 suffering 😢

    • @WalterKazban
      @WalterKazban 2 місяці тому +2

      Never got their plan correct..nor timetable meet up other group soldiers were early but beaten back one day too soon then custer and 3rd part was a day late..plus calvary used single shot rifles..to indians repeaters and knew the area for their numbers were too much for this fighting custer wanted...no chance at all...turned into defense Fter defense loosing troops each time till small group was push to hill top and who to say custer was alive by that time..

    • @jamesyoung6379
      @jamesyoung6379 26 днів тому

      That is not true; every soldier was accounted for, and the Indians would not have taken any prisoners. Indians didn't take prisoners...

  • @angloaust1575
    @angloaust1575 3 місяці тому +51

    When one considers the horrendous loss of life
    In civil war this was only
    A minor skirmish!

    • @josephshields2922
      @josephshields2922 3 місяці тому +6

      It is the second most researched and written about battle in US History. Only Gettysburg is more famous.

    • @nielsjurgensen9493
      @nielsjurgensen9493 2 місяці тому +1

      But more books have been written about Little Big Horn than about the Gettysburg battle ...!

    • @richymoto
      @richymoto 2 місяці тому +2

      "the horrendous loss of life" ? Local people protected their land against violent intruders and killed a handful of them before being anihilated at last. The right to defend ones home is something every American is proud of. They did exactly that. They were Americans long before Europeans came and claimed to be proud Americans.

    • @georgecoventry8441
      @georgecoventry8441 2 місяці тому +1

      Sure. But it was not "minor" to the people directly involved, on either side. (It never is...)

    • @alanrussell6678
      @alanrussell6678 2 місяці тому

      @@josephshields2922 Interesting that Custer fought at both.

  • @raydonica6723
    @raydonica6723 3 місяці тому +21

    Sad day for both sides.

    • @sv5813
      @sv5813 3 місяці тому +1

      Stupid wars

  • @bobsymonds208
    @bobsymonds208 Місяць тому +8

    Hollowed ground for sure. May they rest in peace. But also they poked the bear. And it responded with vengance.

    • @debpratt52
      @debpratt52 Місяць тому

      They were off reservation.

  • @bhartley868
    @bhartley868 3 місяці тому +78

    Not exactly correct ... Custer's widow was told that he was not mutilated . However a arrow was forced into his private parts destroying it ... The soldiers were so mutilated and dissected, head from body, arms and legs cut off from the body, and completely naked , that is was nearly impossible to identify anyone. One trooper has a glass eye, and that eye was shattered by an arrow, that is how he was identified. Relatives were told one thing out of kindness, totally without substantiation from the battlefield . A grave marker was set up for a Mother who came to see where he had fallen . In reality his body was never found ...
    What you are relating are stories not historical facts ...

    • @Donathon-f6f
      @Donathon-f6f 3 місяці тому

      Custer's widow was never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story... while she isn't as bad as Buntline... she is part of the reason a good deal of American ' history ' is mostly fiction

    • @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244
      @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 3 місяці тому +2

      This is not exactly correct. Many witnesses reported Custer's body intact. Many soldiers were not mutilated while others were scalped and mutilated. Tom Custer was only identified by a tattoo on his arm. It is assumed that he was mutilated to that extent because he killed so many of them, as evidenced by the number of cartridges found around him. Chief Gall later said that if all the soldiers had fought as hard as those on Custer Hill, they would have left the field without final victory. Also, the women never came up to the field because it was too far off from the village and they were packing to leave quickly. They looted and desecrated the bodies of Reno's command that fell nearest to the village. Kate Bighead did circumnavigate the entire battle while it was underway, looking for a cousin she feared killed in the fighting.

    • @WyDave
      @WyDave 2 місяці тому +2

      Quite a bit in this is not based on fact. Just one example: not all 5 companies under Custer were annihilated.
      Previous post is correct, saying this is storytelling...based on a few known facts.

    • @bhartley868
      @bhartley868 Місяць тому +1

      @@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 Afraid not, there are many secrets about this battle. Soldiers follow orders... Who said many soldiers were not mutilated, when so many soldiers bodies were never even found...

    • @jamesyoung6379
      @jamesyoung6379 26 днів тому +2

      That is not true; the historical record shows Custer had two gunshot wounds, one in his left temple and one in his left breast. Either one would've proved fatal, one faster than the other. He has blood coming from his ears where the Cheyanne women had used Buffalo bone sewing needles to pierce his eardrums so he would hear them in the next life. Custer had met with the Cheyanne Indians months before the little big horn. He was told if he came for them, he would die. Indians didn't mutilate bodies to do it. There was spiritual reason for it. They, too, believed in an afterlife, so if they cut off the trigger finger, that person couldn't shoot them; if they poked out their eyes, they would be blind; if they slit the thigh muscle, they wouldn't be able to chase them. It doesn't matter what his widow was told. Glass eyes didn't exist in 1878.. c'mon man.

  • @terryschiller2625
    @terryschiller2625 3 місяці тому +22

    One lost the battle,and one lost everything!

    • @josephobermuller8530
      @josephobermuller8530 3 місяці тому

      The Indians reservations have casinos tax-free making millions and millions of dollars

    • @josephshields2922
      @josephshields2922 3 місяці тому +1

      Yes and no. They actually escaped to Canada but could not longer survive because of reduced game for there way of life. They returned voluntarily to the US reservation.

    • @edwardsampierre8310
      @edwardsampierre8310 2 місяці тому +1

      Good

    • @phyllisfager6689
      @phyllisfager6689 2 місяці тому

      You forgot wounded knee. The rebuilt slaughtered chief big foots band. ,crazy
      Horse and sitting bull were murdered. O others rounded up lockup on reservations
      Some made it to canada ,the nez perce were hoping for their hrlp during thrir up rising ​@josephshields2922

  • @active6302
    @active6302 3 місяці тому +163

    Within 5 years, the victorious Indians had been scattered, defeated and placed on reserves where they still are today. They won one battle but lost the war.

    • @williamfletcher7262
      @williamfletcher7262 3 місяці тому +3

      😅

    • @Antonio-j1g
      @Antonio-j1g 3 місяці тому

      yeah, the american government free the slaves and enslaved the free

    • @fishmonger6879
      @fishmonger6879 3 місяці тому +7

      What is your point?

    • @alanreid9385
      @alanreid9385 3 місяці тому +13

      And America is so much poorer for it.

    • @your_royal_highness
      @your_royal_highness 3 місяці тому +12

      You mean reservations. And, they are much worse off because of it.

  • @willong1000
    @willong1000 3 місяці тому +11

    While not mutilated to the same degree as many of his troopers, George A. Custer was most definitely treated to "special attention" in the aftermath of the battle. The truth was withheld from Libbie, but it is easy enough to discover on the web today.

  • @Longwinger
    @Longwinger Місяць тому +1

    One of my Great grandfathers was a cowboy on a cattle drive to Bozman. On his way back, he heard about the massacre and went to the battlefield and helped bury the dead soldiers.

  • @topdogchip
    @topdogchip 3 місяці тому +52

    At the time of his death he was a Lieutenant Colonel not a general.

    • @joed.twyman6355
      @joed.twyman6355 3 місяці тому

      He was a Bravette, like how biden is a professor or jill a doctor. All 3 luzers.

    • @FLANG3265
      @FLANG3265 3 місяці тому +1

      That was his son or nephew. Several of Custer relatives died there

    • @m294me
      @m294me 3 місяці тому +2

      Very good point!

    • @roberthollingsworth8940
      @roberthollingsworth8940 3 місяці тому +6

      ​@@FLANG3265No Custers actual rank was Lt Colonel he was a brevet Major general during the civil war.

    • @lioness7582
      @lioness7582 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@FLANG3265Custer's nephew.

  • @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244
    @deaddocreallydeaddoc5244 3 місяці тому +43

    This document constitutes one opinion by men who by this time, wished to explain away and blame Custer for the general failure of the entire Campaign of 1876, which is ridiculous. A complete and thoroughly objective review of all the materials, including the latest analysis of the battlefield archeology, consult Gregory Micno's "The Mystery of E Company."
    Custer had no way of knowing that Crook had left the field a week earlier and that Terry and Gibbon were a day behind schedule. His job, as Lt. Godfrey recounts in his dairy (with Benteen's command), was to punish the Indians and drive them back to the reservations via a concerted effort of the entire campaign's forces, and if he had not attacked, he would have been blamed. The reasons for his dividing up his command make perfect sense when studied in detail. Custer sent Benteen out to cover the flank of his remaining forces by making sure that no hostiles were waiting in the ravines he sent Benteen to cover. In the Inquiry, it was revealed that Benteen was dawdling and did not think they would find the Indians that day. It was also well reported that Reno was a drunkard and was drinking on the day of the battle. Beteen disobeyed Custer's orders to come up. Custer waited as long as he could for Bentwen and then deployed his companies into a battle square. The Napoleonic Battle Square was a standard tactic and it is well demonstrated (by Michno) that others including Custer in 1873 had repelled similar numbers of hostiles in 1872 and in 1868, and that if Benteen had brought his troops up as commanded, he would have had more than enough men to discourage the Sioux and Cheyenne that day.
    Because of these important facts being left out of this video and discussion, it constitutes a repeat of old, debunked, and/or mitigated through wider, more informed, and objective analysis. I recommend that anyone truly interested in the most objective review of all materials, including Indian recollections and the latest battlefield archeological analysis of the battle, read Gregory MIchno's "The Mystery of E Company."

    • @Havoscar
      @Havoscar  3 місяці тому +10

      Imagine if this comment actually had anything to do with the content of the video. Did you even watch the video??

    • @marks1638
      @marks1638 2 місяці тому +5

      The entire command could have attacked right on cue and still been wiped out. They were outnumbered by least 20 to 1. Even the Brits with all their training, cannons, and breech loading Martini-Henry's (with plenty of ammo) were wiped out at Isandlwana when confronted by massive numbers of Zulu's three years later. Sheer numbers can overcome tactics or even more modern weapons.

    • @hillbilly4895
      @hillbilly4895 2 місяці тому

      @@Havoscar Bless his heart, he doesn't know the difference between prologue and epilogue. Not his fault, his parents were stupid too. 😉

    • @fahadfaisal7855
      @fahadfaisal7855 2 місяці тому

      Well described! I've been repeatedly responding to hundreds of morons who simply follow the 'woke' crowd and believe that General George A. Custer was an arrogant fool 'seeking glory'.
      A majority of readers never bother to look up his heroics and masterful decision-making during the Civil War!
      Those morons should look up what happened to the 'table' on which Lee signed the surrender instrument to General Grant.
      Don't be woke!
      Look up the facts.
      Read, more than you watch...and hear!
      Be informed...and that will help you become aware of the facts!

    • @TheWaywardpilgrim
      @TheWaywardpilgrim Місяць тому +1

      If you say so . . .

  • @bajikimran2304
    @bajikimran2304 2 місяці тому +9

    The Indian account of the battle said that when Custer's troops tried to cross the river to attack the village, they discovered they couldn't cross because of thick mud along the river bank due to recent heavy rains. The Indians had been camped there for nearly two months and knew where they could and could not cross the river. It was during a pause while trying to find a crossing point a sniper's shot rang out and hit Custer in the chest. At this point he was either killed or mortally wounded. His troops then made a retreat where the Indians said the soldiers began arguing amongst themselves. In all probability they were arguing over whether to continue the fight to support Reno's charge into the village, or go into a full fledged retreat to save themselves. While they argued and their horses were scared off by the Indians, the Indians formed a circle around them, leaving no hope for escape. The fact Custer had five companies with him (C,E,F,I, and L ) and four of the five commanders of those companies were found around Custer instead of scattered on the battlefield with their respective companies would seem to lend credence to this version. Perhaps there were discussions about who was in charge with Custer incapacitated. Only Miles Keough was found in a different location, while Tom Custer, Algernon Smith, James Calhoun and Yates were found with Custer.

    • @Havoscar
      @Havoscar  2 місяці тому +1

      Lt. Calhoun's body was found on what is known as Calhoun Hill, along the ridge, where he appears to have put up a stiff resistance. This is far from Last Stand Hill.

    • @bajikimran2304
      @bajikimran2304 2 місяці тому

      @@Havoscar I'm going by what Evan S. Connell said in his book "Son of the Morning Star" and Joe Marshall's book "Soldiers Falling Into Camp".

    • @l.robert2389
      @l.robert2389 Місяць тому

      ​@@bajikimran2304read some newer books. Much has changed since that book was written, especially after the grass fire in the late 1980"s.

    • @l.robert2389
      @l.robert2389 Місяць тому

      All the company were not with Custer. Both Keogh and Calhoun died with their troops, and Tom Custer was serving as part of his brother's staff. Lt. Harrington was in command of Tom's C Company. Also, if Custer had been incapacitated, Keogh would be next in command and then Yates. Smith is the only officer not really where he should have been, although he could have been wounded in E Company's fight in the Cemetery area. Or, HE could have been the officer shot at the Ford. He was wearing a buckskin jacket, as was Tom and Cooke. George Custer was reportedly NOT wearing his when last seen.

    • @lowellsmith1477
      @lowellsmith1477 Місяць тому

      The Indians had not been camped there for two months. There would have been no grass whatsoever for the large horse herd to eat. And, the sanitary conditions would have been horrible. The village had only settled in on the Little Bighorn after the fight with Crook on June 17. At the time of that fight the village was located along Reno Creek.

  • @davidlang4442
    @davidlang4442 2 місяці тому +2

    I was there in 1971. There was no fencing around the stones then. You could walk out there amoung the head stones if desired. The place was much less commercialized then.

  • @genekelly8467
    @genekelly8467 3 місяці тому +13

    A question: Custer's pocket watch turned up sometime in the 1920s...where is it today?

    • @josephshields2922
      @josephshields2922 3 місяці тому +6

      The Western Heritage Museum in Billings Montana. It was pawned off to a bartender or pawnbroker in the 1930's by a Native American.

  • @matthewstandefer2771
    @matthewstandefer2771 3 місяці тому +13

    great depictions of natives in their gear with feather headdress and spears and bows, but by this time many braves were armed with the latest repeating rifles. While most could not repair or fix the rifles, they we very adept in the usage.

    • @johngaither9263
      @johngaither9263 3 місяці тому +3

      While a very few Indians had repeaters, they had the never-ending problem of ammunition. They couldn't make it and with the decline of the bison they had nothing to trade with. It's why so many warriors still carried bows and arrows, lances and war clubs. Weapons they could make with the resources they had at hand. They were crude but effective in the hands of men who knew how to use them.

    • @jkmorrison1013
      @jkmorrison1013 2 місяці тому +1

      @@johngaither9263 They had many repeaters at the Bighorn, that has been proven over and over again. In fact, they had repeaters, the soldiers did not.

  • @bobwallace9814
    @bobwallace9814 3 місяці тому +8

    Custer was well known amongst the Indians. He was a rock star. He had been shot through the body crossing the river to round up women and children to use as bargaining chips to end the hostilities. He was dragged from the river and back to the command post (hill). He also had a point blank shot to the temple by his own pistol. I doubt he was even alive during the final assault by Indians.

  • @rockylucero937
    @rockylucero937 3 місяці тому +36

    I've read countless results of Custer's battle at the Big Horn, and I have to say that sometimes you reap what you sow.

    • @andrewstackpool4911
      @andrewstackpool4911 3 місяці тому +2

      Most commentators overlook important details of the situation leading up to the battle.

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому +7

      What *who* sows? Soldiers generally "reap" what their government "sows" at the instigation of wealthy people.
      Soldiers do not make government policy, they don't sign treaties, they don't break treaties, they don't organize expeditions, and they don't give themselves orders. They just do their duty, and often die trying.
      This expedition was conceived by Sherman and Sheridan, and okayed by President Grant, because powerful men in the East wanted the "Indian problem" solved so they could profit from opening the West. Not a damn one of *them* risked their lives.
      Roughly 40% of the 7th Cavalry was made up of recent immigrants (the majority Irish and German). The Panic of '73 had devastated the economy (yeah, bankers and speculative financiers again), and jobs were very hard to find, so they signed up with the Army rather than starve.
      Lt. Col. Custer didn't conceive of this expedition or organize it; he wasn't even supposed to go on the expedition because Grant was angry with him (for testifying before the Clymer Committee investigating corruption in the awarding of contracts to supply the BIA with food and goods to the Natives on reservations, starving them...Grant's brother Orville was implicated). Sherman, Sheridan, and General Alfred Terry (the actual commander of the expedition) interceded on Custer's behalf because they needed him with the 7th Cavalry.

    • @kcalhoun32
      @kcalhoun32 3 місяці тому

      @@retriever19golden55 And so the statement stands, "you reap what you sow."

    • @mmannozzi06
      @mmannozzi06 2 місяці тому

      ​​@@kcalhoun32it stands for your fate as well as all of us.

    • @debpratt52
      @debpratt52 Місяць тому

      @@retriever19golden55 Truth. Grant's policies.

  • @fredrickgarcia9376
    @fredrickgarcia9376 3 місяці тому +7

    If there were soldiers that had been killed in the village, then there were survivors of the battle, yes? Didn’t survive much longer than that, but they survived the battle. Or am I not understanding?

  • @tscully1504
    @tscully1504 2 місяці тому +6

    Shame that Guidon is in private hands. It certainly belongs in a museum for all to visit and see if they wish. I understand it's legal but wish at some point in the chain of owners one would leave them to museums in their will.

    • @marieriendeau8261
      @marieriendeau8261 2 місяці тому

      I figured something like that would be long at West point

  • @geneotrexler8246
    @geneotrexler8246 12 днів тому +1

    Good video 👍

  • @waynewallace2061
    @waynewallace2061 2 місяці тому +1

    Custer's rank at the battle of Little Big Horn was Lt. Col. He was awarded Brevit General during the Civil War but upon cessation of the war he reverted by to his original rank.

    • @debpratt52
      @debpratt52 Місяць тому

      Civil War officers were often referred to by the highest rank achieved as a courtesy.

  • @Rich-fi7kg
    @Rich-fi7kg 3 місяці тому +5

    I heard they found trooper heads in camp fires, that had burned out.

  • @howl_with_the_wolves
    @howl_with_the_wolves 2 місяці тому +6

    The custer massacre At Little bighorn was the 9/11 of its time. Lieutenant Colonel Custer was not mutilated but his brother Tom Custer was. It took about 2 or 3 days for the news to hit the Eastern papers but when it did the outrage and anger towards Indians at the time was fierce.

    • @groth3395
      @groth3395 2 місяці тому +2

      wrongly so.....Custer wasn't attacked by "terrorists"

    • @Gooseff-Jabruunyski
      @Gooseff-Jabruunyski 2 місяці тому

      @@groth3395 ....yes he was

    • @pkmcburroughs
      @pkmcburroughs Місяць тому

      @@Gooseff-Jabruunyski Pretty myopic of you.

    • @lowellsmith1477
      @lowellsmith1477 Місяць тому

      The battle took place on June 25, 1876. It didn't hit eastern papers until July 6. That's more than 2-3 days.

  • @bhartley868
    @bhartley868 Місяць тому +2

    Custer was send on a suicide mission by the US Government, and then they covered it up and blamed him for the failure. There were three wings of this campaign that were supposed to meet and entrap the Indians. Custer arrived first because he was cavalry , and his soldiers were not on foot. Custer also did not know about the battle of Rosebud ...

  • @alexandrite3208
    @alexandrite3208 2 місяці тому +1

    READ "Archaeology, History, and Custers Last Battle" - Richard Allan Fox, Jr. - 1988
    The battle site was totally re examined after the brush fire which destroyed the areas battl field and surrounding hills.
    This is a very good write up of the battle using todays archaeological approach.
    The battle site was totally re examined after the brush fire which destroyed the areas battl field and surroi

    • @legsofsteel1
      @legsofsteel1 2 місяці тому

      I read an article about that fire and archological investigation. They found many hundreds on shells from the rifles used at the battle and got a great idea of the ebb and flow of the battle.

  • @sheldonberg125
    @sheldonberg125 2 місяці тому +14

    The native Indians were living in the Stone Age. They hunted and gathered for food. They lived a primitive existence and were not going to climb out of that primitive existence for the next thousand years. The worst part of the native America Indians existence was their brutal way of life. They killed each other, warred, raped, and lived very dark lives. Not everything g about the Native American Indians was bad but much was terrible and cruel. There were injustices done to the Indians but that went both ways.
    No one would choose to go back to that primitive existence. I think the reservation system is not helping anyone but I wouldn’t take the land away from the original peoples that was awarded to them.
    The past should teach us but we cannot dwell on the past. Romanticizing the Indians is misguided just like romanticizing any people’s history is misguided. We all have to overcome our primitive proclivities. Most of us have been fortunate enough to have been pulled up by the few who came before us. Today, if you look at our world it seems like we could easily slip back into the primitive ways of war, murder, animistic beliefs, and an age of greater ignorance.

    • @cherylsmith4826
      @cherylsmith4826 2 місяці тому +3

      I don't see much progress in mankind today- we are still at war over something ridiculous & still treat some cultures as subordinates. Unless you think fancy materialistic items are a step up from being primates then not much has changed.

    • @yvonnebagaman7340
      @yvonnebagaman7340 25 днів тому

      We are no better. On the west coast many native American's were enslaved and forced to build the missions in California. They were put on reservations, and not allowed to keep their culture. Their children were taken away and put in religious encampments. Many were tortured. In one instance a group of settlers came and shot all the native American children- this was much worse than sandy hook.

  • @Angel-nu7fm
    @Angel-nu7fm 2 місяці тому +2

    It was later revealed the level of the Custer's and others mutilation was witheld at the time as it was exceptionally bad.

  • @Prfdt3
    @Prfdt3 3 місяці тому +4

    I road a book called black elk speaks.black elk was a participant in that battle.he was a ghost dancer.

  • @bartbucklin7433
    @bartbucklin7433 3 місяці тому +1

    Girisy for all. I've have in life learned and was fascinated about history the West , the battle there.. Sad how history unfolds when its terribly resulted in blunder, All in all hopefully a learning lesson for all. One question I have , With great respect for Sitting Bull, Knowing his deep trances, and visions , in wound sacrifices on his arms being exhausted. he stayed in the Village when battle took place. I wonder if he after batttle rode up to Custer's area on the hill to check it out. before they headed to Canada?

  • @Vico649
    @Vico649 2 місяці тому +18

    Custer is blamed a lot for battlefield mistakes but no one likes to say they were simply outnumbered and .outgunned by the Indians who had repeating rifles and

    • @BryanOliver74
      @BryanOliver74 Місяць тому +4

      According to survivors of Benteen's Battalion, less than 30-40 percent of warriors were armed with repeating rifles.

    • @bhartley868
      @bhartley868 Місяць тому +4

      @@BryanOliver74 600 modern weapons were in the hands of the Indians.. Benteens battalion would not know what happened in Custers battle, as they were not there...

    • @michaelwhisman
      @michaelwhisman 28 днів тому

      Rifles bought and paid for by the U.S. Government.

  • @thorny6021
    @thorny6021 3 місяці тому +4

    Combat fatigue, battle fatigue, shell shock, were names given to mental conditions soldiers suffered from exposure to the trauma of battle before more scientific study of the condition during and after the Vietnam war termed it Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The condition had been noticed for centuries, but there were no effective medical treatments available or enough scientific knowledge about diagnosis. An important result of extensive study of the condition was the the knowledge that the onset of the condition often occurred months or even years after the traumatic event(s). Your snide remark about the men burying Custer and his command seeing terrible things but apparently not being affected by the experience is irrelevant. They may well have been mentally affected, but exhibited symptoms months or years later.

    • @namvet1968
      @namvet1968 2 місяці тому

      Spot on 100%. My PTSD surfaced years later. PTSD can surface decades after the trauma. This apparently happened with Audie Murphy.

  • @glennwolfe3462
    @glennwolfe3462 3 місяці тому +1

    If they kept going, instead of splitting up and running..you never know how far they would have went

  • @NN-hg4em
    @NN-hg4em 3 місяці тому +2

    At the time of his death his rank was of Lieutenant Colonel.

  • @thatwaseasy4065
    @thatwaseasy4065 Місяць тому +11

    Can't say that Custer didn't deserve it.the atrocities he committed against the true American people was horrendous

    • @lowellsmith1477
      @lowellsmith1477 Місяць тому +1

      Can you elaborate on those atrocities you say Custer committed

    • @RobertWindedahl
      @RobertWindedahl 28 днів тому +1

      ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Robert-w7p1b
    @Robert-w7p1b 3 місяці тому +22

    Lieutenant Colonel Custer, not General Custer.

    • @andrewstackpool4911
      @andrewstackpool4911 3 місяці тому

      Brigadier

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому +7

      His regular Army rank at the time was Lt. Col. "General" was a courtesy title from his brevet rank in the Civil War volunteer army.

    • @lioness7582
      @lioness7582 3 місяці тому +2

      He was still called general out of courtesy.

    • @joecentral-o9984
      @joecentral-o9984 3 місяці тому

      I see this comment so often I wonder if you're getting paid for it. Like we get it. But your dick isn't growing because you've made a comment that a ton of other have. Congratulations

    • @debpratt52
      @debpratt52 Місяць тому

      @@lioness7582 Yes, as all Civil War veterans were.

  • @wallacebell4311
    @wallacebell4311 3 місяці тому +12

    Custer left behind two Gatling guns because he thought that the carriages would slow his movements through the Indian countryside. Wonder what would have happened if the Indians heard and saw the results of the rapid fire of bullets during the battle on Custer’s hill?

    • @scvandy3129
      @scvandy3129 3 місяці тому +1

      "wallacebell4311," Clearly, a rhetorical question. Even though wildly outnumbered, those two Gatling guns when operated by proficient [accurate and fast] shooters, their lethal effectiveness could conceivably be equal to a hundred soldiers' each. The tally: hundreds of dead Sioux and Cheyenne; dozens of dead U.S. Army soldiers; the Indians racing off to regroup, formulate a 'Plan B' while the other companies of soldiers would have time to respond to the 'bring help' and 'be quick' S.O.S. pleas coming from Custer.
      Too bad a few of Custer's underlings didn't interject with offers that they insist they carry the state-of-the-art weapons, said soldiers so FEARFUL were they of the atrocities awaiting them, if captured individually or defeated as a unit.

    • @Manpayi
      @Manpayi 3 місяці тому +1

      The carriages demonstrably were an issue, and are part of the reason Reno's horses were blown. They had taken one on a reconnaissance just before the fight and it caused massive issues.
      Not saying it was the right decision, but it certainly was a sound one if you consider Custers actual orders.

    • @georgerivera9318
      @georgerivera9318 3 місяці тому

      Would not have done any good.

    • @alessiodecarolis
      @alessiodecarolis 2 місяці тому

      The main problem was the carriages' frailty, on such a rough terrain would've been very difficult to train these (very) heavy guns. Our army had 3 of them at Doghali, but jammed almost immediately (a likely sabotage ?), and we lost about 500 men against the ethiopians.

    • @l.robert2389
      @l.robert2389 Місяць тому

      Probably the same as the British artillery and rocket battery at isandlhwana did.

  • @eltonjohnson1724
    @eltonjohnson1724 3 місяці тому +12

    Thank you very much for this information. Unless I have been looking in the wrong places, I have not found a whole lot of information on what injuries were inflicted on the bodies of Custer's men. I have often wondered what effect this had on the troopers who saw and buried the bodies. In the reports that have been passed down that I have seen, the soldiers reporting seem very indifferent and unaffected by the horrors they describe. I know that if the same atrocities were done to US soldiers today by our enemies, a lot of soldiers who would see this would eventually suffer from PTSD. It seems like this did not happen to soldiers back then.

    • @d.r.4453
      @d.r.4453 3 місяці тому +8

      The symptoms associated with PTSD most certainly did exist back then but it wasn't called PTSD. PTSD, as we now call it, didn't become a recognized illness until the Vietnam war around 1968-69. At the time of the American Civil War and the wars on the plains afterwards there was a condiditon often referred to as "Soldiers Heart". The symptoms of "Soldiers Heart" were pertty much the same as those now associated with PTSD. Even as far back as ancient times, documents can be found that describe conditions similar to PTSD among soldiers. "War neurosis", "Combat Fatigue", "Shell Shock" among others are early names for PTSD. So yes, soldiers have been affected by what they did and saw for as long as humans have been at war.

    • @MrClean3381
      @MrClean3381 3 місяці тому +2

      I'm sure many did.. Captain Weir definitely had PTSD

    • @markcrampton5873
      @markcrampton5873 3 місяці тому +2

      It happened they didn't understand it; so they didn't talk about it.

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому +4

      Richard Hardorff's two volumes, The Custer Casualties Vol. I and II, are the best source. Hardorff has compiled eyewitness accounts of the bodies, comparing similarities and differences between the accounts. Interesting reading, I recommend it.
      As for PTSD...not all the casualties of the battle died that day. There's a long list of suicides and deaths by alcoholism in the following years.

    • @l.robert2389
      @l.robert2389 Місяць тому +1

      It happened. Look what the 7th cavalry did at Wounded Knee.

  • @NealCody
    @NealCody 2 місяці тому +2

    The reason for taking scalps is why G Custer’s was left alone. Custer killed himself and his scalp had no value for that reason.

    • @lowellsmith1477
      @lowellsmith1477 Місяць тому

      There is no evidence Custer killed himself.

  • @IntheBlood67
    @IntheBlood67 3 місяці тому +2

    Thanks fer the great INTELL!

  • @steveschmoe7290
    @steveschmoe7290 Місяць тому +1

    Custer's Last Ego Trip

  • @j.st.jamesesq.9599
    @j.st.jamesesq.9599 Місяць тому

    Another error in this video: Benteen was aware of the fighting going on, but it was unclear to him if Custer needed him for reinforcements.

  • @josephshields2922
    @josephshields2922 3 місяці тому +1

    By 1876 most Native Americans knew what paper money was. The ones at little bighorn escaped from reservation in the Dakotas so I am sure they knew they could buy guns, food, coffee, or Whiskey with it so I am skeptical about them throwing it away. I am also skeptical about a soldiers carry $500. That was a down payment on a farm in those days. These guys got paid less than $30 a month and usually spent their paycheck before they got the next one and many were immigrants.

    • @Havoscar
      @Havoscar  3 місяці тому

      And yet, these are first person narratives. Do we actually pretend to know more than the people on the ground at the time?

  • @ericstevens8744
    @ericstevens8744 3 місяці тому +17

    Tom Custer had his head smashed into a thickness of no more than a quarter
    That’s horrific 😢

    • @arizonaarmadillo5829
      @arizonaarmadillo5829 3 місяці тому +1

      That wasn't very nice.

    • @ptrckkear1
      @ptrckkear1 2 місяці тому

      The US army had a history of murdering unarmed women and children. What did people expect?

  • @tonimonteith8125
    @tonimonteith8125 Місяць тому +5

    What a shame our government did this to the American Indians. They almost destroyed a National of people who rightfully owned the land to begin with. They’re still fighting in court over their land in the Black Hills. It’s sacred to them. I say, give it back to them. It wasn’t ours to begin with. It was about the gold.

  • @johnbest7740
    @johnbest7740 3 місяці тому +1

    Excellent video and very informative. Much better than the usual AI voice 20 minutes of useless deatil concerning this topic.

  • @rainerschmid9965
    @rainerschmid9965 2 місяці тому +1

    I think he was a Major General, but you would address him as General when speaking to him. I am not 100% certain, though.

  • @timothyryan8390
    @timothyryan8390 2 місяці тому +2

    There were couple survivors .my ascendant sgt. John ryan. He was first sharpshooter/ sniper. He owned a custom hand built french sharp's mclellan sniper rifle. they say he was capable of1500 yard kill shots.. He wrote four or five books throughout his military career.

  • @bx279
    @bx279 2 місяці тому

    Custer made a fatal mistake that cost him and his men their lives. The Indians set up a trap for the army by making Custer think that the warriors were not around to defend their village. Custer and his men thought that since they were nowhere to be seen, they could charge into the camp and slaughter women, children, and the elderly. What a surprise they had to discover that the warriors were waiting for them. The army made a habit of doing these things and many of the villages were destroyed and women, children, and the elderly were slaughtered. Very tragic for both sides.

  • @juliehudson6539
    @juliehudson6539 3 місяці тому +13

    I really love what you're doing here it's really awesome however there was mutilation done to Custer but not as severe as the rest that's because some Cheyenne women recognize him and said somehow that he had fathered a child with a Cheyenne lady they put an awl through his ear so he would hear better in the next life but that was hidden for a long time because they didn't want to hurt Libby custer. There was also an arrow shaft that was shoved up his penis. However yes he was not mutilated in the manner of many soldiers in which the manner of Plains Indians mutilated their dead enemies

    • @31terikennedy
      @31terikennedy 3 місяці тому +1

      Custer was bleeding from the ears because he was shot in the head and his brain was bleeding. The blood had to go somewhere.

    • @stephenburke5967
      @stephenburke5967 3 місяці тому +1

      Complete nonsense.

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому

      The arrow story being suppressed to spare Libbie's feelings is likely true, but the Cheyenne women recognizing Custer and the awl story is hogwash. None of the Natives knew Custer was there, they thought the troops were Crook's, whom they'd fought to a standstill on the Rosebud ten days before. Doubtful the man they knew as Longhair would have been recognized, since he was balding and had very short hair at the time (likely why he wasn't scalped).
      Monahseta, the Cheyenne woman he supposedly had a child with, was already pregnant by her husband when she was captured at the Washita. Custer and his wife wanted children but never had any because Custer was sterile from contracting an STD as a cadet at West Point (likely the result of the treatment more than the disease).
      It's likely Tom Custer had a child, but not George.

    • @mark703
      @mark703 3 місяці тому

      @@stephenburke5967 What part?

  • @Serjo777
    @Serjo777 3 місяці тому +2

    Why did they cut off the names from the clothing?

    • @Antonio-j1g
      @Antonio-j1g 3 місяці тому

      for souvenirs

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому

      Maybe to avoid proving they took part in the battle if they were found with the items? I don't really know. It's a good question. I'll ask someone who knows more than I.

  • @johnmorganjr769
    @johnmorganjr769 2 місяці тому

    Custer suffered from PTSD as well ! See service record !

  • @mygremlin1
    @mygremlin1 3 місяці тому +10

    A little known fact the Calvary had single shot carbine's. The Indians had repeating Winchesters

    • @Antonio-j1g
      @Antonio-j1g 3 місяці тому +1

      well the "eroe" Custer refused the 2nd cavalry and Gatling guns + left behind those sabers well needed in face to face combat

    • @danielblackburn1241
      @danielblackburn1241 3 місяці тому +3

      That is very well known !

    • @arthurbrumagem3844
      @arthurbrumagem3844 3 місяці тому +1

      They also had Spencer’s, and Henry’s

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому +4

      Some of the warriors had repeaters, many had older guns or none at all.
      The Springfield carbines the soldiers had were much more accurate at a distance than the repeaters, which were better for close combat. Many of the troopers were killed with arrows, many with clubs or knives when the fighting was hand-to-hand.
      It wasn't which weapons the warriors had, it was how many warriors there were on difficult terrain unfamiliar to the Army, with no cover.

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому +3

      ​​@@Antonio-j1g Custer absolutely was a legitimate hero in the Civil War.
      The officer in charge of the 2nd Cavalry agreed to go only if General Alfred Terry, commander of the entire expedition, went along in command over Custer. Terry wasn't in the best of health and preferred to stay with the steam ship as long as he could. Custer was to be a fast-moving scout/strike force (that's why Terry sent such a large force). Please stop with the Gatling guns. They were pulled by condemned cavalry horses and even less able to keep up with a column of cavalry than Custer's pack mule train (habitually miles behind the main column). The rough terrain would have necessitated the same frequent stops to push and pull the gun carriages over obstacles that Terry's men had to deal with.
      The battle was fast-moving over miles of terrain containing ravines, bluffs, and coulees. The Gatlings, had they made it that far, would have been abandoned out of necessity. The sabers, though, probably would have been good to have. Only Mathey and DeRudio brought theirs to kill snakes, but neither was with Custer's five companies.
      I agree Reno could have used them on his hilltop defense site, but how they could have been hauled up those steep bluffs that pack mules struggled to negotiate is another story.
      Yeah, the Gatlings would have saved Custer, because they would have delayed his arrival until after the village had packed up and left.

  • @4wheelliving132
    @4wheelliving132 3 місяці тому +2

    That Custer flag belongs in the Smithsonian

  • @31terikennedy
    @31terikennedy 3 місяці тому

    Why did they wait so long to bring what was left of Custer's body back? As it is, they think (?) they brought the right bones back.

  • @johnzajac9849
    @johnzajac9849 2 місяці тому

    It is doubtful that Custer's body was left in that state.

  • @davidcook7887
    @davidcook7887 Місяць тому

    With the hindsight we have today, these descriptions are what happens when revenge is taken on those who have behaved with barbarity on men, women and children.

  • @mikechampion1614
    @mikechampion1614 3 місяці тому +4

    Custer had earlier left a unit of soldiers to die. When he could of saved them but chose glory.to chase down some indians.
    Other than the men who died with Custer. Custer doesn't really get any sympathy from me or many others. Bentin not coming to his aid.(His reasoning was sound) Was a bit of kerma.

  • @mark703
    @mark703 3 місяці тому +1

    I think Custer shot himself when he knew all was lost.

  • @cheryllryan8440
    @cheryllryan8440 2 місяці тому

    Look up the papers with the Freedom of Information Act. Historical information is stored there.

  • @prenticefaber9626
    @prenticefaber9626 3 місяці тому +21

    The term savage" has meaning

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому +4

      That's a term I avoid. They weren't "savage," they had a different culture.

    • @johngaither9263
      @johngaither9263 3 місяці тому

      Look at their culture and accomplishments. They built nothing permanent. There are no stone pyramids or temples. No gold, silver or precious stone treasures and no writing or documentation of anything except oral histories passed on from one holy man to the next. If they do not represent savagery, then I do not know what does.

    • @mark703
      @mark703 3 місяці тому

      And just who was the savage!

  • @JohnnyButtons
    @JohnnyButtons 3 місяці тому +4

    2:09 Custer wasn’t a General when he was killed.

  • @GermanShepherd1983
    @GermanShepherd1983 2 місяці тому

    Custer was no longer a general but a Lt Colonel.

  • @Ralphie5023
    @Ralphie5023 3 місяці тому

    NAPOLEON met his demise on Sunday June 25th at Waterloo 61 years earlier .

    • @lonestarbug
      @lonestarbug 3 місяці тому

      True.

    • @DrMikeOckhertz
      @DrMikeOckhertz 2 місяці тому

      Napoleon didn't meet his demise at Waterloo. He lost the battle but he died on May 5th 1821.

  • @jackmoorehead2036
    @jackmoorehead2036 3 місяці тому +15

    A perfect example of Ego leading and ignoring Intel.

    • @andrewstackpool4911
      @andrewstackpool4911 3 місяці тому +2

      He had no intel that was the issue, plus being detected by opponents. There was the issue.

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому +1

      That's a modern myth. Fred Chiaventone, a combat vet, an acknowledged expert on guerilla warfare, and a former instructor at the US Military College, wrote a novel about the battle called A Road We Do Not Know. In the foreword, he tells of participating in an Army Staff Ride at the Little Big Horn. Everyone on the exercise was an officer and a combat vet. They were given only the information available to Custer on June 25th, 1876. Chiaventone relates that, to their surprise, every one of them concluded that they would have used the same tactics that Custer used.

    • @mark703
      @mark703 3 місяці тому

      @@retriever19golden55 And they also would have died due to overwhelming numbers.

  • @jgreencampbay93
    @jgreencampbay93 2 місяці тому

    I tried to add thoughtful comment yesterday (I’ve been there 3 x in last 30 yrs. It not posted. It wasn’t rude, political, vulgar or inflammatory - what’s the point of commenting if you’re just speaking into the wind?

    • @Havoscar
      @Havoscar  2 місяці тому

      Greetings! If it wasn't political, vulgar or name calling of other viewers it should have been posted. Please accept my apology if it was mistakenly deleted and consider submitting again. I value your feedback. Feel free to call me an ignorant, untalented jerk (it goes with the territory) but no profanity. I already know what you might have in mind along those lines. Go in peace.

    • @jgreencampbay93
      @jgreencampbay93 2 місяці тому

      Your reply is much appreciated. I should probably “copy & paste” into Word so I keep text if something like this happens - it’s rare.

  • @nimitz1739
    @nimitz1739 3 місяці тому +1

    It’s interesting to say the marble white bodies. I thought by that point they had been sitting outside for a day or two. Seems like they would’ve been burned in the sun

    • @Antonio-j1g
      @Antonio-j1g 3 місяці тому

      maybe the indians after killing them, they painted them white? 😢

  • @mikemorse8609
    @mikemorse8609 3 місяці тому +3

    i have read that crippling an opponent after dearh cripples them in the afterlife. Whether that is truly First Peoples belief it has been repeated. Our aversion to touching the dead causes us to be outraged by such stories. The same sentiment that glorified Custer and made him a national hero obscures the lessons of the past.

  • @davidanthony4845
    @davidanthony4845 3 місяці тому

    @se461 Wounded Knee was 14 years later.

  • @xray86delta
    @xray86delta 3 місяці тому +3

    I believe the description of Custer's body was accurate, but did he fail to mention he was stripped also? I believe that's how they found him.

    • @EdA-qh7qr
      @EdA-qh7qr 3 місяці тому +1

      The native American used the clothing that is the reason the soldiers were stripped

  • @ms.annthrope415
    @ms.annthrope415 2 місяці тому +1

    Cuter had 2 Gatling guns in his train, but in his haste to be the first to attack, he sped ahead and left his train behind. Imagine how woukd have saved his troops and won Little Big Horn had he been able to employ two Gatling guns in his defensive formation.

    • @mikesuggs1642
      @mikesuggs1642 2 місяці тому

      What killed Custer is the exact same thing that got Lee whipped at Gettysburg! Overconfidence! Overconfidence & believing your forces are superior to the enemy is an absolute killer in Warfare!

  • @4catsnow
    @4catsnow 3 місяці тому +3

    No intel, compounded by a total lack of situational awareness...and interestingly duplicated at the Il Drang valley in 1965 vietnam....

  • @robbie6954
    @robbie6954 3 місяці тому +7

    And the first nations people are still fighting for their rights 😢

    • @EdA-qh7qr
      @EdA-qh7qr 3 місяці тому +1

      I know the great grandson of sitting bull he lived in Northern Michigan and the man was huge about 7 foot tall

    • @privateprivate5928
      @privateprivate5928 2 місяці тому

      Defeated people don't have rights. Be grateful to be allowed to live.

  • @1339LARS
    @1339LARS 3 місяці тому +2

    Thanks,, //Lars

  • @rinog-56
    @rinog-56 3 місяці тому +18

    Custer got exactly what he was looking for 🤣 what a fool he was

    • @andrewstackpool4911
      @andrewstackpool4911 3 місяці тому +3

      He was no fool. He was caught up in a situation that overwhelmed him. But of course 21C armchair Privates know better.

  • @ptrckkear1
    @ptrckkear1 2 місяці тому +1

    The Natives had more repeating rifles than the army. The leaders hated Custer and were slow to respond. Custer chose to leave Gatling guns at the fort. The result was not a surprise.

  • @nigelstannard7443
    @nigelstannard7443 2 місяці тому +1

    And to think most of custers men were alive still at the point of scalping then killed😢

  • @kennethaustin9930
    @kennethaustin9930 Місяць тому +1

    Custer's revenge

  • @HogaGab
    @HogaGab 3 місяці тому +15

    They were not wild animals, but much worse than that....

  • @infolover_68
    @infolover_68 3 місяці тому +2

    Well, after years and years of Indians being robbed and evicted from their native lands, I doubt there would be no disastreous consequences... That is what unjust wars produce!...

  • @ThomasCumberton
    @ThomasCumberton 28 днів тому

    Was the name Cumberton

  • @shammusomalley8986
    @shammusomalley8986 2 місяці тому

    All of your history is presented to you in illustrations, even though we had photography at the time. You should ask yourself why all the illustrations, when it's way easier to take a photo.

  • @harmgregory4560
    @harmgregory4560 2 місяці тому +1

    I certainly regret the fact that the battle took place, but sympathize with the state of mind of the victors. Seems I've heard that native Americans haven't exactly
    benefitted from the coming of the white man....or escaped post-battle mutilations, either, in other cases. 🤕😧

  • @wildbillharding
    @wildbillharding 2 місяці тому

    Custer was not a General on June 25th, 1876.

  • @mickaderholt3534
    @mickaderholt3534 3 місяці тому +34

    No tears for Custer,only his troopers. His ego finally caught up with him.

    • @andrewstackpool4911
      @andrewstackpool4911 3 місяці тому

      Rubbish. Custer found himself in an invidious position that blew away his intentions. The new Woke expert. Joke

    • @nonenone4880
      @nonenone4880 3 місяці тому

      custer was an idiot.

    • @retriever19golden55
      @retriever19golden55 3 місяці тому +2

      That's a modern myth. Fred Chiaventone, a combat vet, an acknowledged expert on guerilla warfare, and a former instructor at the US Military College, wrote a novel about the battle called A Road We Do Not Know. In the foreword, he tells of participating in an Army Staff Ride at the Little Big Horn. Everyone on the exercise was an officer and a combat vet. They were given only the information available to Custer on June 25th, 1876. Chiaventone relates that, to their surprise, every one of them concluded that they would have used the same tactics as Custer.
      BTW...Custer was not commanding the expedition, General Alfred Terry was. Custer had zero involvement in setting government policy, or making or breaking treaties. He didn't conceive of the expedition or organize it. He was, in fact, ordered by President Grant *not* to go on the expedition. He was a professional soldier and badly wanted to stay with his 7th Cavalry and share in their dangers, and pleaded with Sherman and Sheridan to intercede on his behalf, which they did because they needed him.

    • @johngaither9263
      @johngaither9263 3 місяці тому

      And the end of "Custers Luck". Custer managed to stumble into the single largest gathering of hostile Indians in recorded history.

  • @Fat12219
    @Fat12219 3 місяці тому +4

    The great tribes of northern plains !

  • @jimmyanderson2988
    @jimmyanderson2988 3 місяці тому +4

    Old cluster wound up getting his whole out fit wiped out because of poor decisions on his part !!!!! There’s a reason why he finished almost last in his class at west point!!!!! And surely wasn’t good at math or counting for that matter !!!! Arrogance will get you every time and he just got a taste of his own medicine !!!!

    • @johngaither9263
      @johngaither9263 3 місяці тому

      Custer and 5 of the 12 companies of the 7th cavalry were wiped out at the Little Big Horn battle. The other 7 companies suffered varying degrees of casualties but were not wiped out. Compared to the casualties in civil war battles it was little more than a skirmish.

  • @bajajoes1
    @bajajoes1 18 днів тому

    ACCORDING TO THE INDIANS GEN. CUSTER'S EAR WAS PIERCED BECAUSE HE HAD NOT HEEDED THE WARNING EARLIER. ALSO, HIS "PRIVATES" WERE MUTILATED BUT THIS WAS NOT DISCLOSED TO SAVE HIS WIFE LIBBY DISTRESS.

  • @RobFox-d4j
    @RobFox-d4j 3 місяці тому +13

    What has always amazes me is that indians/native Americans always claim that the land was theirs.
    My question is this, who decided it was your land? It was not their land. That is a cold hard fact.

    • @EdA-qh7qr
      @EdA-qh7qr 3 місяці тому +6

      So you are saying if I want your house I can just take it because I don't think you deserve to live there funny how that is only true for the people who lived on the land for tens of thousands of years and not for the people who stole it

    • @RobFox-d4j
      @RobFox-d4j 2 місяці тому +2

      Eda, let me ask U this question. Throughout all human history, to claim land as yours, you had better B able to hold onto that land. By force, if necessary.
      This has always been true whether it was in the time hunter gathers, when villages began to form, or empires arose, or in the time of nation states.
      So why SHD special rules apply to American Indians? So tell me where the land office was that showed what tribe owned what land. Where was the gov't that protected Indian rights to that land they claimed they owned.
      What Abt the Indian tribes whose land was taken by other Indian tribes by force?
      With all due respect, U obviously do not know vy much Abt human history, and the development of societies.
      Your silly analogy of someone owning a house, and someone else claiming it epitomizes ur ignorance. Bcz in a developed society of an empire, or nation state, which most people live under today, the gov't protects ur ownership rights, by force, if necessary.
      Hopefully, this reply will bring U up to speed Abt hw the world came 2B the way it is.
      It is sad tt people like yourself live in some kind of fantasy world where life is always fair and rosy. That is not reality.
      It sounds to me tt URA woman, bcz U commented based on ur feelings and emotions the way a woman would.
      Men, on the other hand, go by facts, data, statistics, and logic to support their points of view. Just as I hv done.
      Tks 4 ur reply. Hv a great day. God bless.

    • @mideuropean
      @mideuropean 2 місяці тому

      So it could be said that vice versa you must agree that the northern American territories are not the land of the present US inhabitants? Consequentially you should accept that any power being able to occupy the US and exstinquish its inhabitants (not very probable the next decades but how many allegedly unbeatable empires have already vanished in history?) would do this with rectification.

  • @michaelmyers3892
    @michaelmyers3892 2 місяці тому

    Custer was definitely mutilated and died a very painful and gruesome death, he led his men to their deaths, supposedly only a handful at the beginning of the battle saw how it was going and they deserted their post and the army which in my opinion was smart, if you followed custard on anything you would surely to die of something

  • @greghilbers4697
    @greghilbers4697 3 місяці тому +5

    A bunch of new knowledge.

  • @tedk2166
    @tedk2166 2 місяці тому +1

    They called them savages for a reason