We plan a visit to the LBH battlefield next summer and would like to do some reading before we go.
The fact that the remnant's of Reno's command (3 cos reduced) and Benteen's (3 cos at full strength) held the Indians at bay for 24 hours before Terry arrived, sort of answers the question that with the other half of the regiment they would have been okay.Quote:
Were the opposing forces just too big and strong that everyone would have been killed if all together.
I disagree. They would have been strung out the same as Custer's command and more than likely separated into smaller groups and wiped out piecemeal too. It may have taken longer to do so and certainly at the cost of more native casualties.BQ78 said:The fact that the remnant's of Reno's command (3 cos reduced) and Benteen's (3 cos at full strength) held the Indians at bay for 24 hours before Terry arrived, sort of answers the question that with the other half of the regiment they would have been okay.Quote:
Were the opposing forces just too big and strong that everyone would have been killed if all together.
I understood it to be a case of gonorrhea he contracted while on leave as a cadet at West Point.BQ78 said:
Hmmm, guess I was remembering what happened to Tom and confusing him with George. George did have a Cheyenne wife with whom he had a child, when Libby wasn't around. Rumor is he had syphillis and he gave it to Libby too.
Stive said:
Was there a specific reason that Tom was so mutilated compared to George? Or was Tom more in line with what happened to all the other soldiers?