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The Little Big Horn, 1876 - The Official Communications, Documents and Reports (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
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The Little Big Horn, 1876 - The Official Communications, Documents and Reports (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
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Noting that the documents pertaining to the Battle of the Little
Big Horn are often garbled in editing and quoted out of context,
Loyd J. Overfield set out to compile the original orders, letters,
and telegrams that put a great fighting machine into motion and
soon conveyed the shock of its destruction. Far more readable than
today's official documents, they carry the sound of individual
voices and clearly state the circumstances surrounding Custer's
fall.
The communications of this collection begin with Custer's
successful plea to President Grant, who in a fit of pique had
originally forbidden him to join his regiment in fighting the
hostile Indians. A series of carefully spelled-out field orders is
followed by a letter from Major Marcus Reno asking for medical aid
for his wounded men after two days of fighting. Included are
dispatches from Reno, Gen. Alfred H. Terry, Col. John Gibbon, Capt.
Frederick Benteen, and Capt. E.W. Smith. The rosters of officers
and enlisted men who fought at the Little Big Horn will be of
interest to Custer buffs and historians and also to family
genealogists trying to trace ancestors who made history there.
Overfield has provided primary sources that amount to a detailed
postmortem of events from participants only too aware that history
would ask questions.
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