Custer's 7th: Thomas Weir, HIS LIFE. The Man Who Tried to Save Custer I
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- On the afternoon of June 25th, 1876, Lt Col George Armstrong led his column of the Seventh Cavalry in an attack on the combined forces of the Lakota and Cheyenne camped near the Little Bighorn River in Montana. Two columns of the seventh cavalry, one under Major Marcus Reno and another under Captain Frederick Benteen, remained a few miles away while Custer and his men famously fought to the death.
Less famous is the story of the one officer who consistently tried to hurry the other members of the Seventh Cavalry to go to the sound of Custer’s guns, and that man was Captain Thomas Weir.
Thomas Weir survived the Little Bighorn fight. But he created great controversy when he shared his version of the events that happened that day, and he died much too young, haunted and alone.
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Books that talk about Thomas Weir:
Chuck Merkel's dissertation (you can download online): Custer's Forgotten Lieutenant: Thomas B. Weir
Custer Come At Once! The Fort Hays Years of George and Elizabeth Custer, by Father Blaine Burkey
Good biographies of Custer or well-researched histories of the Little Bighorn fight by Donovan, Leckie, Stiles, Frost, Utley, Graham, Carroll, Liddic, etc.
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If you too have a passion for the 7th Cavalry, please consider joining:
Little Bighorn Associates www.thelbha.com/ www.thelbha.com
Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association custerbattlefi...
Custer Association of Great Britain www.english-westerners-society.org.uk
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They aren't just black and white photographs. They were real human beings with all the emotions and reactions we have as humans today. You bring this out nicely. 👍
Weir Point feels like an especially despondent place on the battlefield. As you crest the low saddle, you comprehend the trepidation, the awe and sense of impotent frustration Weir's men must have experienced as they too reached the protected height, taking in the panorama, and the sure realization dawned that they were too late, and Crazy Horse's warriors were mopping up.
It does.
I am always amazed when I am at the LBH how you can see Weir Point from nearly anywhere. And I can't help but imagine all the eyes of Custer's men rooted on it, seeing movement there, thinking their comrades will come at any minute.
The whole battlefield is full of tragedy and beauty.
Siobhan, I enjoyed your presentation of Thomas Weir's life. I knew almost nothing of Weir beyond his Civil War service and his attempt to get Reno and Benteen to go toward Custer during the battle of the Little Bighorn. I love the details of his personal life that you revealed. I'm looking forward to watching the next episode of Thomas Weir, his fight!
@user-jv8jl3rp2i oh yay!!
He is my favorite member of the 7th Cavalry, if I must choose a favorite 😉
And the third installment, His Death, is one I am very proud of and worked quite hard on. Lots there that I have not seen others mention when they discuss the Little Bighorn, and it took a lot of digging on my part.
Please let me know what you think!
It is obvious that Custer and his men was allowed to die. The original map of the Indian village, showed approx. 1,500 to 2,000 warriors available to fight. Custer's last orders were "to come quick, big village, bring packs"(ammo) and was completely disregarded. he fight Custer and his men put on, lasted way more than an hour, that Benteen reported. In fact, several Indians reported it lasted 3-4 hours.
Had no knowledge of this intrigue. Interesting and well presented. Thanks!
Ooohhh... thank you!!! So much to this Little Bighorn story, isn't there? I can go on forever!!!
Thanks Siobhan, what stood out to me was Thomas losing both his parents in quick succession at an early age a lot like Reno and yet the two men couldn't of been more different. Thomas Wier seemed well adjusted and social and yet Marcus Reno exactly the opposite. Yes both were hard drinkers but soldiers have always had that reputation.
I also wonder who may of sent Custer the anonymous letter warning him to take better care of his wife. Who ever it was certainly knew what buttons to press to get a reaction.
Anyway thanks again Siobhan for the cast on Thomas Wier he was a good officer and leader of men and a loyal friend to Both George and Libbie
I thought the same thing about the parents!
And how I'd love to get to the bottom of the anonymous letter about he and Libbie too! Still so many unanswered questions...
Thanks for the awesome presentation
Thank you! Best comment to read just before going to sleep here in Cyprus!
Cheers 🎉 😴
Well researched and produced Siobhan,very enjoyable.
I appreciate that so much. Thank you! 🙏
This was fascinating. Anytime I hear about the 7th cavalry it usually revolves around Custer. This was a nice difference. All the best from Snowy Scotland. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Thank you!! Stay warm! We are heading to Ireland for the New Year to visit family and friends!
God Bless Scotland I'm Scottish and English mix so my Grandparents said.Greetings from Kansas
Another brilliant video! Seasons greetings to you!
Thank you so much! A warm and happy holiday to you too! 🙏🌟
Wow, Fascinating, this certainly adds some interesting context to the movements and decisions made regarding "Weir point".
Thank you! A whole video on that NEXT UP!
Another excellent video. Weir’s death was tragic. He wasn’t able to cope with the fact that he could not rescue his comrades in arms. He was really the final casualty of the LBH fight.
I wish he could be reinterred at the National Cemetery at LBH 🙏
Thank you for the kind words! I'm still putting together Part II which delves into what you point out above...
great video - keep 'em coming!
I will, thank you!
Wier is such a a tragic figure. He was one of the lone officers that day who strove to do the right thing. I think if his leadership - meaning Bentsen and Reno - has more courage and grit they could have saved Custer. Thanks for so deftly putting a spotlight on this chapter of history.
Thank you!!!
Benteen hated Custer benteen betrayed Custer and that's a fact
Real life drama,, real life love,, real life,,
Friendship..... with such a tragic ending.
Magical just magical how you bring them back to life. ....
To you I remove my hat my dearest lady 🌹
Do hear them clamouring...
"Encore,, Encore!"
You are wonderful, Hugo. Thank you!!
Wow, there was a lot of under currents going on before that battle. Glad you here to bring them out into the open.
@@EndingSimple thank you! I think Weir is the key to so much.
Awesome as always.
Yay thank you!
Terrific knowledge and energy in the way you present your particular subject. I have learnt much from yourself. You are a very intelligent beautiful lady. Keep them coming. Thank you very much. 👌🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
James, what a lovely message! Thank you so very much. I enjoy putting these videos together, but getting a comment like that makes my week 🙏🎉
I'm working on Myles Keogh now and hope to have it up by Saint Patrick's day!
A very nice elocution of the history of the day. The intimate elements add a dimension necessary, though not always revealed.n to complete the portrait. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words! I love the small, personal details myself in order to always remember the human side within the larger conflict 🙏
Well done, thank you for putting these videos together.👍
Thanks so much for taking the time to leave such an upbeat message, John! 🙏
I like your pace and clarity of voice. It was entertaining and informative
What wonderful feedback! Thank you!
Great job, Siobhan! Looking forward to Part 2.
Thank you! I better get cracking! 😉
Thanks! These are great and please keep going!!
I will! Thank you!! 🎉🙏🎉
As always very well researched can't wait for part 2 . If you're taking ideas for new episodes how about something on Custer's so called luck versus his actual incredible abilty to make on the fly strategy decisions during battles which are often misunderstood as plain luck .
Yes!! That's a fantastic idea!! As I'm sure you know, Patrick, Custer did not like this ability denigrated as mere luck rather than a skill he had honed.
Thank you!!
Great work! Thank you for what you do
Thank you so much!! You just put a big smile on my face 🤗
@@SiobhanFallon7 You’re welcome! Your passionate work is appreciated by so many people. Would you consider doing a video about Lt Donald McIntosh in the future?
Excellent. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind message!!
Once again ur research impeccable and storyline very interesting felt like Weir somewhat of an unsuccessful romantic , once again well done thank you .
Thank you so very much!
Another great video keep up the great work you always do a great job 🇺🇲
Thank you!
That picture shown near the end, of the summer outing at Ft. Lincoln , with the stars you placed on those who died at LBH , when seen in person, the original, is of such quality that it takes one's breath away. it was said by Frank Mercantante to be 3D like.
Oh! I have heard so much about Frank Mercantante from Bruce Liddic!
It is such an amazing photo, with the individual personalities shining through. So human and full of bright life.
@@SiobhanFallon7 Yes, Frank was VERY impressed.
At last a beautiful Historian i can listen to and look at too
Ha ha thank you 😊
I really wish you could do a deep dive video on the doctors with the command. If the three only one survived and was a huge hero
Doctor Porter!! I'd love to talk about him sometime!
@@SiobhanFallon7 yes and dr dewolfe. That would be awesome
@@robertschultz6922 yes!!
There are many fine attempts to trace the movements and timing of the cavalry at the Little Bighorn. A review of them suggests Weir arrived at the point which bears his name at about the time C Company charged off Battle Ridge toward Greasy Grass Ridge. If so, Weir may have witnessed the entire battle leading to Custer's demise. In a letter to Libby Custer, Weir intimated that he knew more than what had been publicly said about the battle. Native accounts have warriors charging Weir prior to the cavalry demise on Last Stand Hill. In this light, Weir's account of observing warriors firing at soldiers on the ground would probably have been observations of the retreat of C Company back to Calhoun Hill, while he stood fast at his observation point. The guilt of inaction for as much as 45 minutes may have led to his death.
Yes!!! All this will be in Part II!
You know your stuff, Bruce 😉
@@SiobhanFallon7 Will you put in the video Weir's eyesight is not that good?
@@Tellgryn I've never heard or read anything about his eyesight. Did he wear glasses? Please share any info, I would love to include this detail! Thank you!
Excellent video! I'm loving catching up on all of them! thank you!
I'm loving you catching up too! 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for the kind words!
Great info and video.
Thank you!
Hi Siobahn, just discovered your channel, I live in the UK and have been fascinated by Custeruster and particularly the Little Big Horn. Really looking forward to watching all the videos.
That is so lovely to hear! Thank you!
Looking forward to your future comments.
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁🎄
Greetings from Manila. I'm slowly getting through your videos. Give me time. I do have a life but I really appreciate your efforts
Thank you!! I appreciate you making your way thru them! 🤣 I try to create about two a month so you don't have to rush too much 😉
Don't trust anything Benteen said.
(Good point 😉 )
Enjoy your channel.@@SiobhanFallon7
Benteen wouldn't care.
@@michaelhart6318 Beenteen was a malicious gossip. The bad things said about Weir came from Benteen and his faction. As Fallon pointed out, Custer didn't feel that way at all.
@31terikennedy True, Teri.
It's almost a shame that we have Benteen's letters and his judgement on so many people and events, as it's hard to differentiate his spite from the truth. Too many people take his words as gospel truth 🤷🏼♀️
Thank you for this beautiful video about my great great uncle thank you ❤❤❤❤
Thank you!
Again if you want to discuss anything off line, send me an email at siobhan@siobhanfallon.com and I can tell you where I got info etc. I have so much respect for Weir.
@@SiobhanFallon7 what about benteen and Reno one of them betrayed Custer it was benteen benteen hated Custer
@@Dorian-wf1iv keep watching! I touch on those topics in Part II and Part III!!
Another really interestng insight into the seemingly 'sad' Captain Wier. It seems that Wier had an infatuation with Libbie, and 'chanced' his arm. His failed attempts with the 'ladies' adds to his morose personality. Look forward to part two of your story Siobhan.
Thank you. I agree with you and that he may have had a romantic sensibility, and a bit of a broken heart
Off topic I'm amazed there's not more books on Crook's role on what happened at the Little bighorn. I feel he got a pass from his buddies up top , do you have any thoughts on that ? To me that information not shared would have changed everything going into that battle . Crooks Scouts and Messengers also would have had no problem delivering that Intel to the Terry command.
Always thought that. After his fight, he completely checked out, did nothing. At the very least, sent his Indian scouts to inform Custer and the Montana column of location and strength of the Indian force. They courtmartialed the wrong person
Crook got a pass. He was fishing when the fighting was going on. Reference the poem. I wish I was a packer and travelled with General Crook, but he had scrapped with the Sioux and avoided a similar ambush and was waiting for resupplies. If Reno had scouted as told to ensure where the Sioux were not it is possible he would have came across Crook. Instead Reno went where the trail was hot and where the village was expected. Everyone, terry gibbons and Custer chastised Reno for this. If that did not play into the entire thing as much as any other gear in the transmission.
I'd like to be a packer
And pack with George F. Crook
And dressed up in my canvas suite.
And be for him mistook.
I'd braid my beard in two long tails,
And idle all the day
In whittling sticks and wondering
What the New York papers say.
-Downey, Indian Fighting Army
Another great video. As someone who has read books and watched many videos on Custer and the Little Big Horn Battle i must say your videos offer by far the most information and nuance.When other experts quote comments or offer opinions from figures involved in the battle or involved in the enquiry they as often as not leave out the bias or the personal gain the figures had to lay all the blame of the defeat at Custers door .A good number are so poor and biased(mainly against Custer) i give up watching the video way before the end.
I get very frustrated with those videos myself and usually have to turn them off after a few minutes too. Which was part of my motivation for doing a series.
There is so much to this story and fight that gets missed, and of course those are the bits I love best 💕
Thank so much for watching and taking the time to send some positive energy my way!!
@@SiobhanFallon7 You are welcome keep up the fantastic work.
Thank you so much for making these. I'm working on a Ken Burns-knockoff series on the events leading up to Little Big Horn. In the next episode I want to do my best to humanize Custer and his fellow officers and troopers. If it wouldn't bother you, I was wondering if you consider an event, anecdote, letter, or something else your intimate knowledge of the men & women of the campaign that best humanizes the cavalrymen whose lives or reputations would perish at Little Big Horn?
Your in depth knowledge has been very educational, insightful, and so devoted to honouring the 7th Cavalry Regiment that I'm concerned about doing them a discredit if I continued my own work without at least trying to present them as familiar and human as you have done with your channel. The context you've provided has made me reconsider my own approach as I feel a stronger connection to the people involved who have transformed from mythical names, to described daguerreotypes, to the humans with flaws and virtues and personalities that feel no different than mine or anyone else's today. I know this contradicts the narrative that these were heartier men of tougher stock than those today, but you've helped me see their charm, spirit, and boldness that I think many of us have buried deep within ourselves today, but with the luxury of keeping these qualities untainted by the hardships they had to face. Thank you again.
If you are looking for one easy to find book (I got my copy for a couple of dollars at Thrift Books) that has it all, Donovan's Terrible Glory is full of anedotes and stories that bring these people to life in a way documentaries or quick history summaries ever do.
But in my most recent research for the Tom Weir vid you commented on, I learned that during the huge and very public buffalo hunt, with dignitaries and reporters all there for a good time, Custer ended the hunt days early after an enlisted man accidently shot and killed his favorite hound, Maida. Custer was despondent on the death of his dog and wrote about how terrible the loss was. This was not a ruthless killer. He was a man who let his dogs sleep in his bed, even when his wife Libbie complained. He took the thorns out of their paws and tended their wounds after hunts. He had a pet mouse who lived in the ink well of his desk. He tried to teach servant/ laundress children how to read. When he was stationed in Austin right after the Civil War, they camped near a blind asylum and he would take one of the young girls for horseback rides. Before the 1876 campaign, Sioux came to Lincoln saying they were hungry and he tried to organize a way to feed them even though the government refused to give him the funds. Custer loved his mom and wrote her letters all the time. He came from nothing and as a young officer was the sole support of his mother and father and brothers. No wonder he needed to succeed-- his parents desperately depended on him. Speaking of his as a young officer, there are so many stories of him and his West Point friends who happened to be Confederates, and they treated each other with dignity. I am hoping to do a video on Ramseur soon, as well as Tom Rosser. (I am disappointed with West Point for trying to remove Reconciliation Plaza at West Point, that honors those sorts of moments between Blue and Grey.)
All of the men (and women) have stories like this, on both side of the Seventh divide (on both side of any divide). Benteen who lost four out of five children before the age of two. Weir with his heart breaks. I could go on and on (and I do!!!). They are all so flawed and painfully human.
Thank you for the lovely and insightful comments. I'm so happy my videos are resonating with you and perhaps impacting how you see this fight. I appreciate you reaching out.
Thanks again and all best to you with your videos as well!
Sgt. White diary printed pages after his death in the Camp Notes of BYU. That is the most accurate item I have read. Then follow it up with Gerards's response in the Bismarck Tribune after his testimony was skewed at the RCOI (thinking it was Gerard and not Herendeen although both of them and DeRudio got a beating by the defense. Things usually left unsaid. Dr Porter who could testify as he wished as he was a contract surgeon. These men were showing that it was the Government that helped the reputation of the men perish at the LBH. I also like Thompson and Korn and Curley. Their testimony lines up if you understand it.
Custer regarded Weir as a capable soldier, but I'm sure I read that in one of Custer's diary entries that he didn't think much of Weir as a man, which is interesting as Weir seemed willing to risk all to save him :(
Custer wrote some disparaging comments about Weir to Libbie-- I read a few excerpts in this video, but, yes, there are a few more. That was circa 1869. Afterwards, I find no mention of Weir in Custer's letters, though other spouses and officers continue to say fine things about Captain Weir.
Weir was a hard drinker for a long time, and Custer did not drink. But Weir was good friends with Yates and Cooke, who were close friends of Custer too. And Weir continues to be in photos with the Custers.
So my opinion is that he was still considered a member of the Custer social circle.
Yes I commented too soon lol about a min later you were talking about it 🤦♂️
And yes I agree, of course he was - they were probably good friends most of the time. A diary entry is a personal thought that no one would have known about, especially Weir. Also Custer may have just been in a bad mood and annoyed with Weir on the day he wrote it, but was fine again afterwards, who knows 🤷
@MrClean3381 all great points! And I think Custer may have been a tad jealous of Weir and Libbie's friendship.
I'm glad you're back. I was afraid that you got scalped or something. How did Weir get out of prison? Was he prisoner exchanged? (paroled I think they termed it) Interesting as always. Thank You
I will check... but you hit the nail on the head. At the time of Weir's imprisonment the Union was still doing prisoner exchanges so it's odd he was held so long. Though my friend Dale suggested perhaps Weir did not have family members to apply pressure for his earlier release.
And I'm not going any where! Still have my hair too 😉
@12:20 the hidden hand pose. Goes back to ancient Greece.
I'll check it out! 🤣
Ha! Thanks for pointing that out
Freemasonry was extremely popular at the time and especially amongst military officers.
I don't have absolute proof, but I believe my ex-husband was a descendent(somehow) of Thomas Weir. I base this on what happened to me one day when I was researching the Native American side of the Little Bighorn battle. I was thumbing through a book that had pictures of the company commanders. I came across the picture of Thomas Weir and thought "How did they get a picture of Patrick?". Then I realized what I had just thought!!!!!
Wow. Weir has a very distinctive look. Do you know any of your ex's ancestors or where they came from?
Maybe you can solve an abiding mystery for me... how do you pronounce your last name?
Weir like "weird" but dropping the "d", or Weir like "wear" like wearing clothes?
Thank you!!
@@SiobhanFallon7 My ex was born in Texas but his father was born in Ohio--not sure what town. My ex always said that Weir was pronounced like weird but drop the d.
@joyceweir7060 thank you!!
Yellow Hair Custer in Native memories, was a daring character, murderer and fantasist in love with his ego. When Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) & Inunaina (Arapaho) reinforcements arrived on the banks of the Washita, the fighting against women, children and elders quickly dissipated 🧥🧥 📯 🧥🧥. The battle of the Greasy Grass (Little Big Horn) was a direct violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, signed by the most powerful Native Leaders on the Northern Plains & the US. Custer was arrogant and never listened to several warnings years earlier, leading his men to a quick end. At the Greasy Grass his men stopped short, stunned by the sight of 'soldier societies' coming right at them. The Lakotas (Oceti Sakowin) he attacked were Non-Agency traditionals, and non-Treaty signatories. To this day, 'The Sioux Nation vs. The United States' is the longest active ongoing legal battle in US History, with extraordinary monetary consequences for the US, should the terms of the Fort Laramie Treaty be recognised, even though the Lakota Nation withdrew from the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 & 1868 in Dec 2007. Aho 🦅 🟥🟨 🫱🏼🫲🏽 ⬛️⬜️ 🦅. Doksha. 'One does Not sell the earth upon which the people walk'. Tashunka Witko 🦅
Weird was an attorney according to camp notes... New York I think. Also heard it was custers black woman servant that sent word to Custer that he should keep Libby closer or such
Was captain Keogh considered part of Custers inner circle?
At one time yes, not by 1876. Wier is on the outs with Custer as well due to what happened years before the Little Big Horn. Wier is still trying to get back in the inner circle in 1875-76. Custer going into the Battle of the little Big Horn has so many issues in the command, a house divided will likely fall.
Good question. During Custer's court martial Keogh was not.
But he is in this photo as well as the later one on the Fort Lincoln Custer House stairs, so I think he ran with this set to some degree.
I like how someone who is rumoured to have had a child with a native American is upset about his wife hanging around a fellow officer
Personally, I think this is why Weir was being "huffy" and unpleasant to Custer during the end of that long Washita campaign, because he thought Custer was paying too much attention to Chief Little Rock's daughter, Meotzi/ Monasetah.
Awesome! How did Custer earn admission into Westpoint?
That's an interesting story. It is thought that the father of the girl, Mary Holland, he was romancing may have used his political connections to get Custer into West Point in order to separate the young lovers. Custer's dad was a Democrat and the party in power at the time were Rebublicans, and parties usually supported candidates of the same politics. Mary Holland's dad was a prominent Republican. I'll try to find the anecdote-- it's probably in Shirley Leckie's bio of Custer if you know it? Donovan's Terrible Glory might mention as well.
Yes, in Leckie's Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth page 23!
@@SiobhanFallon7 Awesome - thank you so much!!
@@SiobhanFallon7 The similarities between Weir and Custer are very interesting - maybe interesting to Libby Custer as well. It’s tragic what a battlefield trauma can do to such a bright, good looking, affable young man.
@jimmelino3361 yes!! Besides the drinking, I see many similarities too! The pranks and jokes and theatricals!
Though Weir seems to have gravitated more toward literature, at least in his university days. Which he would have had in common with Libbie.
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Siobhan ; interested in your thoughts of was Audie Custer shot and died before Last Stand Hill . Thus the shot placement on his body . Or was it on the Last Stand Hill ?
I am not familiar with a theory that Autie Reed died and was brought to Last Stand Hill? I have heard that there might have been a makeshift field hospital set up there with wounded, and Custer, even when realizing he was gravely outnumbered, would not abandon those wounded in order to retreat. Definitely a possibility that wounded were moved to that spot. And perhaps the dead may have been moved, esp if it was young Autie Reed and before the fight got really overwhelming. If you remember where you heard that interesting tid bit please let me know. I am curious!
Thank you for watching and commenting!
I will try to find it to send . It makes sence . He had a chest wound . And possibly alive after this . And his brother was still alive gave him the mercy shot to the head . But in his being Custer the shot to the chest was in the front .
General George ( Audie ) Armstrong Custer .
I found other stories of days before research from other source : Storie of the old west !
Little Big horn
@Gene-kl1br thank you!! I'll check it out!
That Weir fellow was definitely what we call here in Scotland an "Alky Bam" 😒
🤣🤣🤣
What does that mean??? 🤣
Well count me in also. We celebrated the birth of my first grandson by opening a 1932 bottle of 94 proof Scotch Wiskey and I was way over the hill. Great video again Siobhan, don't worry about the remark, the 3rd Armored Div was well oiled back in Germany, it got pretty boring out at a remote post Our army loves us out in the boonies no matter what century lol. 😊
@@johncanzoneri4771 🍻🥂😉
Let's be honest. They waited until the volley firing was long over before going to explore what happened. And it's a good thing they did. Had they ridden out and actually joined with Cutler they would have died with him.
Edgerly shares your view, but also acknowledges that the military is honor-bound to other actions as well:
“I most firmly and positively believe that we should have gone “to the sound of the firing” after Reno and Benteen united, and further I believe that if we had tried to join Custer at that time we would have shared his fate.”
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Thank you!
Mirror image??
"Mirror image"?
What do you mean?
@@SiobhanFallon7 All of the writing behind you is all backwards, like looking in a mirror.
@Mr.56Goldtop ah yes! I get it. I filmed from my phone and am not clever enough to figure out how to flip things properly!! 🤷🏼♀️🤣
@@SiobhanFallon7 You too!?
Custer went to far he want to be president of USA by take the gold in black hills. USA had problems and need that gold to bild up USA after the Civil war. And Custer want this job and then go for the
next president of USA. But the Native americans was in his way. First time to loose a battle But all this is historie good & bad. A Great show thanks from Norway
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! 🙏
@@SiobhanFallon7 I liked to play cowboys and indians i was a kid in the 70`s so. I was always the grey soldier he he
You explaine to me please
Why i was so wrong about Custer.
So bad he went into this hell. His orders was to hold the place to help comes
He did`t wait he wants to finish this him self
We can only see into the historie and maybe talk about it we cant do nothing moore this happend in year 1876 so long time ago
@torarauland7145 there's a dispute about his orders. If you read General Terry's official orders, there is nothing that tells Custer to wait for any kind of meeting with other US troops. And many 7th cavalry officers, including Godfrey and Edgerly and Garlington, say that Custer did exactly what a cavalry commander should have done in that situation, and that no seasoned commander would have waited and let the Indians scatter. 🤷🏼♀️
Thomas Weir and Libby Custer were fooling around you can bet on it by the way you need a better microphone, it's up and down
Thank you! I do need a microphone a better all around set up! Maybe in the new year... 🙏
custer was brave but reckless as usual bit off more than he could chew and like always his men were massacred.
When else were Custer's men massacred?
Battle of the Washita? U misspelled massacre!!! And all those men under his command at this engagement did actually hostile Indians, and and got no help, were wiped out!!!
I have a whole playlist on the Battle of the Washita you might want to take a look at. I'll put the link below :)
And there are segments within that look into the fate of Major Joel Elliott and the men who rode off with him. All of whom died, as I think you point out in your comment.
Thanks for taking the time to leave a message here!
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They did t fight bravely they ran bravely...
If Custer and his column ran, they would have lived. Benteen himself testified to this at the Reno Court of Inquiry, that the "better part of valor" that day would have been if Custer had retreated.
@@SiobhanFallon7 the only one who made a good charge was Reno if he hadn't lost his objective he may have lasted a little bit longer. But he was on the run also. It wouldn't have mattered how far Custer ran his horses were played out . But great work in some of your articles the natives know the truth on that day ..
@@user-sc4lc5ts2o Thanks so much for your insights and kind words. Hope to hear from you again!
Wouldn't use the word 'ran', but after George Custer's "Ruh Roh" epiphany, they did everything they could to flank around the charging warriors and rejoin the 7th soldiers to the south (Reno & Benteen). Unfortunately, the Cheyenne were the finest light cavalry in the world and herded Custer and his men to last stand hill.
@michaelhart6318 Yes! Michael, I think both Custer and Benteen said the Sioux and Cheyenne were the first cavalries in the word. I need to did those quotes up. Thanks for your insights!