How the Indians Fought Custer and the U.S. Cavalry

Most of the senior officers who served in the wars against the Plains Indians were products of the Civil War. Frontal assaults and dashing charges were commonplace in the Civil War but were not very effective in frontier warfare.
Custer’s Last Stand Re-examined
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[@msjoanofthearc]

Thank you, this was both detailed and concise.

[@bobwallace9814]

Too many rely on TV and movies for their history lessons. Example...Custer had very short hair. He did not wear a buckskin jacket because it was over 100 degrees that day. He was likely already dead before the Indians assaulted that small rise called a hill. He was shot through the chest earlier crossing the river while attempting to raid the Indian camp to round up women and children to bargain with to end the hostilities. The battlefield was immense and several days. A suicide charge by Indian teenager boys ran off the troopers horses kept on what is now rows of gravestones. There were no officers alive early into the final assault judging by the mad dash into the ravine and hopes to reach the safety of the river. Custer and others were found the next day by fresh arriving troops. In addition to that large caliber chest wound, he was shot at point blank range in the temple by his own revolver. He carried a prototype that was only given to 3 others and none were there.

[@TheJaxxJackson]

You are spewing so much bs it’s quite astonishing. “His own pistol” there is no proof of this what so ever.
While he may have been wounded at the River, I doubt it. There were shell casing from Custers rolling block rifle found near his final resting place. Meaning, he was or someone had taken his rifle and was returning fire. More than likely, it was Custer himself.