Captain Benteen: Custer & the Black Hills III. Lives of the Little Bighorn

[@gar9429]

I could sit here all day and listen to you. Wait a minute did I say could? I DO sit here all day and listen to you. Thank you so much. Keep them coming.😀

[@SiobhanFallon7]

🤣🤣🤣 thanks so much!! I will keep'em coming!! 😉🙌

[@yossarianvanducci1565]

Still watching you. Keep the sound effects as they add something special. Keep up the amazing work 😊

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank ypu, Yossarian!!

[@yossarianvanducci1565]

@@SiobhanFallon7 you are most welcome

[@lynnesherwood3748]

I have thoroughly enjoyed this series. Lots of history that most aren't even aware of. Thank you Siobhan for all the hard work you and your team have done on this series!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@lynnesherwood3748 thank you, Lynne! You just made my night!! Please watch more 😉🙏🎉

[@donaustadt]

Greetings from Austria! After watching all three parts of your excellent series in a row in one afternoon, I'm really glad I found this channel. What a fantastic job! I really love how you go into so much detail and give us a clear insight into the characters of Benteen and his colleagues. For me, the most fascinating thing about military history is not the weaponry and high strategy, but learning about people's lives and personalities, and that's why I could watch documentaries like yours for hours. Benteen was certainly a bitter and cantankerous character with many severe flaws, but strangely I find him much more likeable than many of his contemporaries, especially Custer and Reno. Also, I love these rare pictures, I didn't know there were so many photos taken of Benteen. I really can't wait for the next part of this series!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

You are wonderful! Thank you. I too love the personal side of the fights and the backstories of the participants. So glad you found me!

[@davidlord7364]

Fascinating! Well done

[@mediumrare9051]

Siobhan, great content and even better presentation.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make my day!! Much appreciated 🎉🙏☺️

[@georgefulton7012]

Siobahn, I am really enjoying your presentations. In 1997, I had the opportunity to go on a 10 day tour with Terry Johnston, an historical fiction author, through Wyoming and Montana. I had lunch with Gilbert Bird in Ground, a descendant of White Swan, one of Custer’s scouts, ON THE BANK OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN, just below Reno and Benteen’s Hill. We had private tours of Dull Knife’s battle site, the ranch where Sitting Bull had his sun dance and saw the sandstone carvings of soldiers falling into the Indian camp. We walked the Rosebud, Fetterman’s Fight and Wolf Mountain. An incredible experience. Anyway, this a long way of saying that I enjoy your presentations. You bring keen insights into this time period that I have not heard before. Thank you very much and keep them coming please.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Now that sounds like a truly incredible tour. Wow. I have Terry Johnson's books!! What memories you must have. Thank you for sharing, and thank you for the incredibly kind words. I hope I hear from you again, George. Regards, Siobhan

[@garysimmonds9636]

Thanks Siobhan. You make these both extremely interesting and fun at the same time. Your personality shines through.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Really lovely of you to say! Thank you, Gary! 🙏

[@danhamilton3332]

Yeah!! I got to be "thumbs up" #400!! Not only that, BUT, when I realized that I had met you, a few years ago, on Last Stand Hill, (2022?) I was even more THRILLED to watch your videos! I still have your business card you gave me out there (that's how I confirmed that you were the same person)! And, when I told you I was writing a "fact meets fiction" account of the story concerning the events durning and after the battle, you were very supportive! So thank you! Anyway.... Not sure where this particular video falls (chronologically) in all of the videos you've created (I've watched at least 10 of them at this point), but I wanted to tell you that you've done an OUTSTANDING JOB on ALL OF THESE!! No one else is doing anything like this!! It's SO REFRESHING to see and hear something other than the "normal" coverage and conjecture surrounding Custer and the battle! You are actually giving "life," and character, and nuance, to these people who have long since passed, and can no longer speak for themselves... THANK YOU for your cheery delivery, relatable writing, in-depth insight, sound effects and songs, and your bouncing graphics! (Love the arrows SHOWING who is who in the old photos- NICE TOUCH!) And, THANKS for all the painstaking work that you've done to produce these!! HATERS be damned!!! "You be you!!" Personally, I like the longer format of these videos!! I say, take as long as you want to take, to tell the story you want to tell!! "Keep on keepin' on!" Siobhan, YOU ROCK!!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@danhamilton3332 thank you thank you thank you for such lovely feedback, Dan!! I hope your own work is going well? Feel free to drop me a line via email at [e-mail] 📚

[@jaynesager3049]

Gurrl, just keep spilling that history tea! You’re a great storyteller. Kate Benteen and all the other wives are truly heroes.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

🤣🙌 thank you!! 🥂

[@jaynesager3049]

@@SiobhanFallon7 thank you for spotlighting the families of the 7th. Great content

[@ejdotw1]

You are doing a wonderful job! What a wonderfully clear voice and energy you have! I am a historian and pray you continue to do so much more. Subscribed and sharing for sure. Much love and good thoughts to you!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

You are lovely! I'm sorry I missed this message, but it sure brought a smile to my face today! I've been working very hard on a new video and hoping I can get it up today (been having very frustrating computer problems lately, ugh). Please stay tuned and again thank you for your kind comment. I needed that ;) All best and hope to hear from you again, Siobhan

[@Jay_Hall]

Excellent presentation,,enjoyed much! :)

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank you!!

[@redcatcher2]

Very good presentation. Let me know when your book comes out.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

I will!! Thank you!

[@anthonywalters4452]

As always very informative and balanced with the imput from human beings involved in the army and their loved ones on the frontier at this time in history.Well done Siobhan.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Oh, thank you so much! Struggling with a new one now so your words made my day! 🙌🎉

[@MilesWalterKeogh]

Excellent work. Thank you very much!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank you for the comment!!

[@jamesnix729]

Thank you for your video and continuing saga of Fred Benteen and family. Looks like your subscriber number jumped over 500. It's easy for me to say, but I hope you don't worry or stress over views and such. It's a niche topic and you're just getting started! Keep up the good work and God bless you and your family.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank you so much, James! No I don't worry too much, good of you to point that out. 🎉 God bless you and I appreciate your kindness.

[@gator83261]

Another great video! Love the history.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Much appreciated! So glad you enjoyed it 🎉

[@bougeac]

Love your documentaries Siobhan, appreciate the work that goes into them. I believe Fred Benteen was unfairly vilified after the battle, NOT recklessly charging to Custers aid saved the lives of himself and many under him. By the time they realized Custer was in trouble it was far too late to make a difference and he knew that. His performance commanding the defense of Reno hill following the battle was exemplary and this was never truly appreciated.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. Opinion does seem to swing back and forth on Benteen. I love his Goldin letters. But best of all are his letters to his wife, when his entire personality shows. He was a very, and very brave, man. I could read about him forever. He seemed to be aware of his faults but unable to fix them. He shows a lot of insight when he wrote, "I’ve always known I had the happy facility of making enemies of anyone I ever knew.” Thanks again, and please stay tuned for more!

[@RLM1943]

Excellent presentation.Very informative.I learned a lot about the expedition that I had not read.I'm looking forward to following the rest of the series.Well done!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Oh, thank you for the kind words!

[@KevinWilliams-c2p]

🎉l didn't know you have a book coming out... please let me know when it it is available ..I can't wait!!!

[@KevinWilliams-c2p]

Sorry but I can't stand benteen

[@markhubanks3715]

After all the years and traveling and reading and studying official records , non official records, hearsay, multitudes of books on the Custers fight at the Little Bighorn, I could never come to terms with Benteens actions at the Battle. Till Now! First and foremost both Custer and Benteen were fearless in battle and didn't scare a lick, so that's never been on the table for me. But what you brought out in your videos is the underbelly of just how smart and mulipitive Benteen was and proved it time and time again and he might have been the smartess guy in the room. I believe Benteen was totally jealous of Custer and felt he should have been Breveted higher then a Captain and he wanted that higher rank and everything that went with it. I believe he looked at Custer, Reno and others and said to himself I'm smarter then them and it should be me in charge. All the reasons about Lt. Elliot, Horses, Duties, Custers relatives, higher officer's influence was nothing but a smoke screen to discredit Custer. But his big chance came at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He comes upon Reno who has lost it and asks him for help, what could he do, Reno is a Major so that's what he does, the perfect alibi who could fault him Right? He knows that if Custer is successful his butt is covered by Reno and if Custer isn't? Oh well there's going to be alot of possible promotions and Custer and his relatives will be gone. The Perfect Crime! Oh there will be a board of inquiry but he has Reno to cover his actions that day. Benteen without any doubt at all anymore in my mind was guilty of dereliction of duty that resulted in the totally annihilation of Custers command. There is a very old saying in the Army Infantry, A SLOW WALK WILL DO IT! Benteen did his slow walk, he was the smartest guy in the room and most clever!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Wow. My husband is Infantry but I have never heard of "A slow walk will dobit" and it's an incredible saying, especially in light of the Little Bighorn! Benteen did say after the fight and after finding all the dead that if only Custer and his friends had died, it would have been a big win for the Army. Which is just incredibly callous considering how many of Benteen's own soldiers and friends died that day. You make a lot of really insightful points, Mark. Thank you. I need to finish my Benteen series but there is just so much to cover and new things I learn as I go... Keogh is coming up in the next few days if I could just hustle a little faster... 😉🍀☘️

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Love this message!!! Thanks again 🎉📚🎉

[@markhubanks3715]

@@SiobhanFallon7 Someday I would love to have a 10hr. talk with you to pick your brain on all the knowledge you have acquired on Custer and the Little Bighorn and compare notes. But I'm afraid 10hrs Would just scratch the surface with you. Thank You for your insight!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@@markhubanks3715 🤣🤣🤣🙌🙌🙌🙌 I'd like to hear your take too, Marl. Thank you so much 🙏

[@joedyer5486]

I hope that someone chonicles my period of service in the US cavalry as passionate as you in 150 years. My indians wars were with the tribes of Arabs in Iraq and the wild frontier of the pastun tribes and the Taliban. You posts are wonderful thank you for the content.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank you, Joe!! My husband was in Afghanistan, Paktika Providence in 2004, and has been Iraq three year stints as well. I often think of the similarities myself abd have thought about writing about it, but I think that's a future project. Right now I'm trying to wrap up a segment on Bloody Knife, who was half Arikara ( who sided with the US) and half Sioux ( who of course did not) and his story so perfectly illustrates the violence and complicated interactionsof the time. Please stay tuned, I'd love to hear from you again! 🙏

[@joedyer5486]

Well my time in Iraq I served as a military transition team NCOIC and at times I felt like I was indirectly participating in tribal conflict

[@joedyer5486]

My time in Afghanistan was like plains duty boredom accompanied with extreme fear. Very similar the 1870s

[@joedyer5486]

As a soldier and a CAV man , Benteen was the most competent officer in the field that day of the Battle of the greasy grass. And was against dividing the command.

[@EndingSimple]

Always happy to give you a thumbs up. You know, the more I learn about the 7th through you channel, the more I realize that the view of Custer and the 7th in the times that followed, up to the present day, have more to do with the political winds of the given day rather than with the time and place of the Little Big Horn battle itself. In particular, I'm thinking of the movie "Little Big Man." That film was really a criticism of the Vietnam War. History is often a weapon of the political parties of the day rather that anything that can truly be said about what actually happened. That said, your briefing on the Battle of the Washita River tells me that Custer never learned anything from it. It was conducted almost in the same manner as Little Bighorn. At Washita, he was able to slip away before the other Indian force could surround and overwhelm him. I'm guessing his impetuousness had to do with the Indian's facility for striking where the army was not and slipping away on horseback once they were discovered. He had to balance doing a thorough reconnaissance against the fact that they would slip away as soon as they were discovered. I don't think he ever had an idea of how big a force he was attacking until he attacked.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@EndingSimple wow, that's the perfect summation. I'm with ypu 100% there.

[@michaelhart6318]

Just when you think these presentations can't get any better...they're so well done. Katharine and Fred's "Little Kate" died in December of 1868, is buried at Fort Leavenworth Nation Cemetery. In reference to an alleged conversation between Benteen and Custer at Monument Rocks, outside of Fort Wallace, would like to know the whereabouts of Thomas Weir just prior to Custer's AWOL episode and journey back East in search of Libby. Ornery Ole Fred had a mean streak, and may have been partially culpable for Custer's court-martial. Still feel that Benteen was the finest cavalry officer in the seventh (other than his conduct unbecoming stunt at Fort Duchesne in front of a superior office and his wife.)

[@SiobhanFallon7]

What's the conversation you are referring too at Fort Wallace? And yes, there's a lot more to the Custer court martial than I could put here. Weir was spending a lot of time with Libbie (much drama there with them nearly getting shot walking outside Fort Hays, and then his saving her from drowning at the flooding there). I hope to do a Weir presentation-- he is actually the 7th CAV officer who intrigues me the most and I think he is the key to solving many of the Little Bighorn mysteries...

[@SiobhanFallon7]

And thank you for the kind words!! 😊

[@beachcomber1able]

Seems like Captain Robert West had the biggest beef against Custer when he brought additional charges pertaining to Custer ordering Major Elliot to bring back some deserters "dead or alive" 🙁

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@@beachcomber1able yes. Later West would offer his hand to Custer in apology. I think he also very shortly got out of the Army and tried to be a sutler/ trader but took ill and died.

[@beachcomber1able]

@@SiobhanFallon7 I read that he got cashiered for drunkenness six months after bringing the charges. Could the" Custer Mafia" somehow have orchestrated his downfall in revenge. 🤔

[@gbfch]

These 3 Benteen videos are first class, (as always). I bought the Harvest of Barren Regrets some years ago and really enjoyed it. Perhaps for me the most interesting character in Custers 7th. I'm not sure I would have got on with him,. In his letters he comes across as sarcastic, opinionated, sometimes petty, self centred and one who doesn't suffer fools gladly . All these characteristics just makes him very human. He and Kate obviously had a very loving (and physical) relationship, The loss of his children is heart-breaking. Wondering if Joel Elliott is worth looking into - can't find it listed in your vids. Thank you for these entertaining and informative vids.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@gbfch yes! I agree wholeheartedly about Benteen. Fascinating man, and I love reading his letters for all the pathos and witty/ snide remarks. His love for his wife is a balm over what is otherwise a very difficult man. I need to finish his series... But I keep changing my mind about the role he ultimately played! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Major Eliiott is an EXCELLENT idea. I cover him quite a bit in my Washita videos but he deserved a video of his own for sure 🎉🙌

[@richarddavenport31]

ITWAS SO SAD TO HEAR THAT KATE LOST 4 CHILDREN. MAKES ONE APPRECIATE HOW THE WOMEN BACK THEN SACRIFICED ALL THEY HAD TO MAKE THIS NATION. SOMETHING YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY CAN'T APPRECIATE SINCE NOTHING LIKE THIS IS TAUGHT IN ANY SCHOOLS!!!!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

I agree. I read about how difficult all of their struggles were and wish there was an understanding today that life is hard, that it is only the "pursuit" of happiness that is guaranteed, but one we must work for. We have no concept of how our ancestors just barely survived every day. It's why I read Little House on the Prairie to my girls. Makes them appreciate every trip to the grocery story and water coming out of an indoor faucet.

[@dks13827]

Bad schools, bad teachers.

[@EndingSimple]

Yeah. I remember going through a old cemetery and it struck me how many of the headstones were for young children. Those poor parents must have been made out of steel back then.

[@hugonarvaez2944]

Fridays are so boring without any new content...... HAHAHA... just speaking for all of us! I do pray you and yours are safe. It's cold in Los Angeles, we got some snow!!! Well, just checking in, Have a pleasant evening. My Fair Lady,

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Oh you are the best!! Thank you, Hugo! I was hoping to put a new one up this weekend but I'm running behind. Hopefully I'll get it done this week. It means so much to get your messages 🙏

[@hugonarvaez2944]

@@SiobhanFallon7 Bags of popcorn ✔️ Pizza 🍕 delivery number ✔️ Chocolates ✔️ Beverages ( non-sweetened) ✔️ Yep,,, were ready check ✔️✔️✔️ Please keep that smile on that beautiful face, makes this world a brighter place...

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@@hugonarvaez2944 ha ha ha!! 🙌🙌

[@hugonarvaez2944]

@@SiobhanFallon7 I'll take that "hahaha" and raise you with 2 😊😊 smile's,, and a thundering laugh !! Poker,, get it poker face! Hahaha. .. okay okay I know don't quit my day job! Thank you for all you do... Fair Lady 😊🙂🙏

[@hugonarvaez2944]

NNNOO!!!!!!!!!!! What a cliff hanger ending!!!!!!!!!!!!1 My Fair Lady, Super writing!!!!!! Super!!!!!!!! Creative and Witty with so many Details!!!!! Indeed!!!!!!!!!!! Your ability to write makes me feel like it just occurred just some years ago!!!!! Oh, The talent,,,,, Indeed.!!!!!!!!!!! I Tip my hat to you my Fair Lady with a sigh, and respect and awe,,,,,,,,,

[@SiobhanFallon7]

ha ha ha ha ha I'm sorry!!!! I had a lot of fun weaving in all the different accounts and military wife elements in this one! Thank you for watching, Hugo!!!

[@hugonarvaez2944]

@@SiobhanFallon7 Good morning to you Dear fair Lady from Los Angeles CA. It's a breezy sunny morning, Hmm I say it's going to be about 75 to 78 degrees today. I just want to thank you for all those marvelous details. Just one great layer of information after another well balance (harmony). I never saw Benteen so human! I have to be honest, when I say that I just disliked him! Why, well I just saw him as a culprit who got away with a crime! You see for years, I mean that for years since I was a teenager, I read about the Little Big Horn battle, and I knew something was wrong! Like there was something missing about the story, sort of like when you read about JFK , or the death of Marlin Manroe, or even Oswald etc... I am sorry, what I mean to say each of your videos brings out the true humanity in all these people! Most of us just gloss over these important details without really keeping in mind they were once alive with feeling, with love and tragedies. Please forgive me for rambling on, I am forever grateful and a fan of yours!!!!! I pray you have a wonder day my Dearest fair Lady of History!!!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@@hugonarvaez2944 I struggle with Benteen myself and his actions on June 25, 1876. But he is a delight to research, and I learn as I go with these presentations, and he becomes more human to me as well. I always love your comments, Hugo, thank you!!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@@hugonarvaez2944 it's also a gorgeous day in Carlisle PA! Was just outside in the sun sipping my coffee!

[@hugonarvaez2944]

@@SiobhanFallon7 We eagerly look forward to your next video!!!

[@scaredy-cat]

Tact when dealing with superiors seems the better part of valor

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Ha, good one!!

[@walterholmes4609]

It's good to see that Benteen's reputation has been dusted off over the past two decades. When I was a kid he and Reno were the two absolute villains in American history, lower even than Benedict Arnold (no relation to Tom), who was merely a traitor, not a sniveling coward. No one can deny that Fred was his own worst enemy, yet nor can they deny his defense of Reno Hill. He was a brave, capable warrior if not always loyal to his friends either living or dead. In the early 70s I saw a husband wife folk group in Chicago. They had written a song called "It's quite a lovely painting Mrs Custer" with a line that went: "Benteen and Major Reno, They weren't so very keen-o, To go poking where the Indians would be It's such a lo Ely painting Mrs Custer Like Washita. Bull Run or Valley Forge, But the kind of odds they gave him, Only Hollywood could save him, I'm sorry things turned out that way for George" Anyway, I did subscribe and see from your Playlist I'll be up for a while tonight.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank you! Oh my gosh that song!!! I will look for it 🤣🙌🎶 What a lovely comment, much appreciated and hope to hear from you again 🙏

[@tbcoachniblick1208]

Started my interest in this adventure with Son of the Morning Star Book, then ventured into Harvest of Barren Regrets... Benteen is a very interesting fellow ... a salty mixture of bravery, intelligence, humor, and gold plated sarcasm towards his non friends ! I get the impression he was vastly misunderstood in the big dramas of his army career. Nevertheless I consider him a commander I would happily serve under.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Benteen does make for a lot of fun research 😉🤣

[@ivannio8519]

The real deal you bring up :) Top!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank you! 🎉

[@martingranzow6624]

Benteen sure had some slick hand writing. I heard they are no longer even teaching cursive in elementary school.

[@robertkramer8133]

I’m struggling to find part IV. Can you please share the link?

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Because I haven't finished it yet 😬😬😬😬😬 My take on Benteen role at the fight keeps shifting. I'm so sorry. I know I need to go back and finish this asap!

[@robertkramer8133]

At least now I know it’s not my lack of skills. For me he saved what was left after Reno turtled. Yet, he failed to respond to the sound of the guns and lied. The pack train was there shortly after he arrived on the hill and sat around for 2 hours. The problem though is how many do you bring with you while Reno has lost it and has wounded?

[@brian78045]

Approximately one-third of Sioux left their reservation in 1875. Why not all? Why only a third? Because that third acquired its water from the rivers that transited the Black Hills, those waters now being polluted by runoff from gold mining. Another question: Why not move away from those polluted waters to clean waters north of the Black Hills, but still on the expansive reservation,* and avoid a war with the United States? The move was understandable, but not understandable was leaving the reservation, placing women and children in danger of war with the United States. In fact, the fleeing Sioux invaded the Crow reservation (Little Big Horn is on the Crow reservation), and its leaders were in a planning session to raid the Crows for supplies when the Seventh Cavalry stumbled upon the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho encampment. ----------------------- * The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty gave the various Sioux tribes the western half of today's South Dakota, all territory west of the Missouri River!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thanks for that info, Dean. Great points.

[@brian78045]

@@SiobhanFallon7, you're welcome! I have other observations regarding the 1890 skirmish at Wounded Knee, involving what Father Francis Craft called "malicious Whites" from the BIA, who were agitating Indians throughout the nation with frightening polemics about how the Army wanted to kill all Indians. Father Craft was at Wounded Knee, by happenstance, wounded by a deluded Indian who taught the Army was about to kill all Indians at Wounded Knee. This is why the Indian males opened fire on the troopers with women and children in the crossfire. Father Craft testified that it was the scared Indians who drew first blood, but only because they believed the malicious lies by BIA personnel. The killing of Sitting Bull was the straw that broke the camel's back, leading this band of Indians to flee the reservation to save their lives. Other bands of Sioux seem to know that the BIA warnings were false, and considered Chief Big Foot a fool for believing the "malicious Whites". It is my opinion that Jack Wilson and his Ghost Dance were instruments of the BIA's policy of scare mongering the Indians, and Sitting Bull unfortunately fell into the trap of the Ghost Dance insurrection. This is why Sitting Bull resisted arrest, because he believed he had nothing to lose in resisting. Who were these "malicious Whites" sent across the nation by the BIA to scare Indians? Marxists, doing what Marxists do best...creating societal divisions under the banner they call The Struggle". Our schools don't tell us this, but the Republican Party was co-founded by Marxists in 1854, and Marx wrote a weekly article for the New-York Tribune, the New-York Tribune being the Republican Party newspaper through the 1860s. Check out Wikipedia's content for New-York Tribune, you'll be shocked to learn this little known fact.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@@brian78045 I'll have to look that up. What does BIA stand for?

[@brian78045]

@@SiobhanFallon7, Bureau of Indian Affairs, formed in 1824. Here's Father Craft's account: Google: army at wounded knee Father Francis M. J. Craft - Missionary Wounded in Battle

[@brycesuderow3576]

I need your help. Can you help me find some photos of Frederick Banting dating from the Civil War. the only picture I’ve seen shows him as a sort of Roley Poli grandfather type.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

I think you got some images on the FB feed, Bruce? All set now?

[@scaredy-cat]

Benteen and Reno should have been reassigned from the 7th for the good of the regiment. Custer as well.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Who is left? They were severely short staffed as it was. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@beverleywilson4091]

Don't feel crazy! It's wonderful to get a reliable history - no Hollywood etc.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank you!!! 🙏

[@robnewman6101]

Oklahoma State used to be known for as Indian Territory.

[@barbaraanneneale3674]

I still maintain that benteen was the real villain at the little bighorn.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

You are not the only one... his bravery and take-charge attitude on the evening of the 25th and 26th made the officers and soldiers feel as if he had saved them. I think that gratitude may have impacted how they viewed his actions earlier in the day. Or not 🤷🏼‍♀️ So hard to know. Thank you for chiming in! I really need to finish this series!! But as you can see I am still undecided myself about so many details...

[@barbaraanneneale3674]

@@SiobhanFallon7 I can see that. However, you should continue on. I am an amateur Custer enthusiast Myself, And you certainly know your stuff. Refreshing for internet history.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@barbaraanneneale3674 thank you!!

[@barbaraanneneale3674]

👍@@SiobhanFallon7

[@jerrygarner]

Great story but the sound effects are distracting.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Thank you! I have since gotten rid of most of the sound effects in my newer videos. Please take a look and let me know if you think it's an improvement 🙏

[@jerrygarner]

@@SiobhanFallon7 Thank you Siobhan for your response. You are right about the newer videos. My apologies for not noticing the progression. I really enjoyed your work on Keogh. Such an impressive man and soldier whose story is largely overshadowed and unknown. Thanks for making him come back to life in your telling of his life.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@jerrygarner thank you so much, Jerry! I'm still figuring out KZbin and these presentations so please keep the suggestions coming. I'm always grateful for feedback!

[@jerrygarner]

@@SiobhanFallon7 You’ve got my subscription and I can’t wait for more!

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@@jerrygarner thank you!! I am working on a bio on Custer's scout, Bloody Knife, now 🤞 I hope to have it finished next week.

[@Gene-kl1br]

I smell govt pilfering of the creme . Indian affairs agent was getting rich . And solder was to die for it . With feeble tools to achieve it . This was leading up to Greasy Grass massacre. Govt greed in war . With Ely Parker Grants friend the Indian affairs commissioner .

[@brycesuderow3576]

I said Frederick Benteen

[@davidcharcas3121]

Oh the girl i left behind. The Queens own butler play that tune; you mean Gary Owen?

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Hi there! The Girl I Left Behind Me is different than the famous Gary Owen. Here's the link which also has a sound clip: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_I_Left_Behind

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Gary Owen is a wonderful tune though!! 💕🍀

[@robnewman6101]

Lincoln 2012.

[@garylynch9206]

Any subordinate of an egomaniacal officer should be given the benefit of the doubt by history

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Do you mean Benteen's subordinates? 😉

[@beachcomber1able]

What's going on with Fred's eyes, did he suffer from proptosis 🤔

[@SiobhanFallon7]

Oh, why, what do you see in his eyes? You know, I don't think I mentioned his bout of snow blindness at the Washita... he would mention his eyes bothering him when he medically retired. I need to look up proptosis-- tell me more!

[@beachcomber1able]

@@SiobhanFallon7 Protruding eye balls. A goitre characteristic.

[@SiobhanFallon7]

@@beachcomber1able interesting! Thanks for pointing it out, I will research

[@beachcomber1able]

@@SiobhanFallon7 Your videos are great and you have a lovely delivery of them. Like the horsey sounds when cavalry is mentioned. 😀

[@jaynesager3049]

@@beachcomber1able like a thyroid issue?

[@robnewman6101]

American Civil War 1861-1865. Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of The United States of America.

[@robnewman6101]

Mr Lincoln. February 12th 1809 - 16th April 1865.

[@robnewman6101]

He was shot in the back of the head at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C

[@robnewman6101]

Native American Museums to vist.

[@jeanlucmartinez6606]

Custer a été lâchement abandonné par ses officiers, une honte!!!

[@earljones5325]

Benteen,reno,and Custer were all guilty of personal bias ,stupid decisions , and personal animosity toward each other..

[@SiobhanFallon7]

They all had rather big personalities!

[@Gene-kl1br]

Different things happened to these three in day to day rhetoric. To what they wore . Wool make anyone irritable. No AC . Using Buffalo chips to cook and be warm . Custer's house had burned down at Ft Lincoln. And to check the egos at the door not going to happen . The pay very poor . The medical hospital on these forts was not medical attn anyone need .