The Grisly Epilogue of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

On June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, five companies of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, under the direct command of George Armstrong Custer were wiped out. The field of battle is never a pretty sight.@Havoscar
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[@risinbison1106]

I’ve visited many battle sites but Little Big Horn was, to me anyway, the loneliest as it sits out on the prairie. I wondered as I was there if any soldiers, knowing their impending doom, looked about and thought, I’m dying for this? I suggest you visit it in the offseason when you’re the only one there. It makes a powerful impact.

[@jeffreyvaughn1838]

Yes, I visited in the dead of winter. I was alone. It was a profound experience.. like I could feel the ghosts, one of the best experiences in my life.

[@jimvanbrocklin2060]

I have. You're spot on.

[@richardcutt727]

I very much doubt that Custer escaped mutilation. Likely the story of him found sleeping at rest with a smile on his face was for the benefit of Elizabeth Custer.

[@Serjo777]

I remember hearing/reading the exact opposite, but I might be mistaken.

[@user-wi9rf1zx5b]

Custer is guilty of disobeying orders and consequently the death of his soldiers but, the criminal government at that time, made him a super eroe

[@johnking7772]

It’s not hard to find documentation that he was mutilated. Nobody wanted to upset his wife’s “delicate sensibilities”. She must have been a bit of a fool to believe Custer was the only one not mutilated.

[@lanzknecht8599]

Custer was very much despised among the Indians. In a raid under his command against the Southern Cheyenne a large number of non-combatants had been killed. That earned him the nickname "squaw killer".

[@willong1000]

A simple browser search of "Custer's ears" or "Custer's penis" might enlighten the ignorant.

[@angloaust1575]

When one considers the horrendous loss of life In civil war this was only A minor skirmish!

[@josephshields2922]

It is the second most researched and written about battle in US History. Only Gettysburg is more famous.

[@user-zq4zi3dy3c]

I have been to Little Big Horn. If you have the time take the bus tour. The guides are VERY knowledgeable. Many interesting facts are revealed during the ride!

[@active6302]

Within 5 years, the victorious Indians had been scattered, defeated and placed on reserves where they still are today. They won one battle but lost the war.

[@williamfletcher7262]

😅

[@user-wi9rf1zx5b]

yeah, the american government free the slaves and enslaved the free

[@fishmonger6879]

What is your point?

[@alanreid9385]

And America is so much poorer for it.

[@your_royal_highness]

You mean reservations. And, they are much worse off because of it.

[@bhartley868]

Not exactly correct ... Custer's widow was told that he was not mutilated . However a arrow was forced into his private parts destroying it ... The soldiers were so mutilated and dissected, head from body, arms and legs cut off from the body, and completely naked , that is was nearly impossible to identify anyone. One trooper has a glass eye, and that eye was shattered by an arrow, that is how he was identified. Relatives were told one thing out of kindness, totally without substantiation from the battlefield . A grave marker was set up for a Mother who came to see where he had fallen . In reality his body was never found ... What you are relating are stories not historical facts ...

[@Donathon-f6f]

Custer's widow was never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story... while she isn't as bad as Buntline... she is part of the reason a good deal of American ' history ' is mostly fiction

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

This is not exactly correct. Many witnesses reported Custer's body intact. Many soldiers were not mutilated while others were scalped and mutilated. Tom Custer was only identified by a tattoo on his arm. It is assumed that he was mutilated to that extent because he killed so many of them, as evidenced by the number of cartridges found around him. Chief Gall later said that if all the soldiers had fought as hard as those on Custer Hill, they would have left the field without final victory. Also, the women never came up to the field because it was too far off from the village and they were packing to leave quickly. They looted and desecrated the bodies of Reno's command that fell nearest to the village. Kate Bighead did circumnavigate the entire battle while it was underway, looking for a cousin she feared killed in the fighting.

[@juliehudson6539]

I'm stopping again because I think every Battle of bighorn students knows that there were soldiers that went into that ravine but they could never find the bodies maybe finding parts of soldiers in the camp means they captured some and took them back do the village and I'm sure it wasn't pretty

[@nimitz1739]

Counts from Indians that they did take soldiers into their camp. So you’re right on that point. During Reno’s retreat they said some troopers were Lassoed off their horses and drug back to the camps. They talk about it in this vid

[@Fat12219]

😢 suffering 😢

[@stevemiller2448]

To Julie Hudson, the reason students know several men went into the ravine was the army burial parties saw the bodies in a ravine down from Last Stand Hill. Therefore if the bodies were still there then (4 days after the battle) they had not been taken into the village.

[@topdogchip]

At the time of his death he was a Lieutenant Colonel not a general.

[@joed.twyman6355]

He was a Bravette, like how biden is a professor or jill a doctor. All 3 luzers.

[@FLANG3265]

That was his son or nephew. Several of Custer relatives died there

[@m294me]

Very good point!

[@roberthollingsworth8940]

​@@FLANG3265No Custers actual rank was Lt Colonel he was a brevet Major general during the civil war.

[@lioness7582]

​@@FLANG3265Custer's nephew.

[@terryschiller2625]

One lost the battle,and one lost everything!

[@josephobermuller8530]

The Indians reservations have casinos tax-free making millions and millions of dollars

[@josephshields2922]

Yes and no. They actually escaped to Canada but could not longer survive because of reduced game for there way of life. They returned voluntarily to the US reservation.

[@Donathon-f6f]

Yep.... Sitting Bull warned them Not to do this or they would face disaster

[@ericstevens8744]

Tom Custer had his head smashed into a thickness of no more than a quarter That’s horrific 😢

[@ericstevens8744]

@havoscar…. More great Little Bighorn videos. Thank you !!!!

[@wallacebell4311]

Custer left behind two Gatling guns because he thought that the carriages would slow his movements through the Indian countryside. Wonder what would have happened if the Indians heard and saw the results of the rapid fire of bullets during the battle on Custer’s hill?

[@scvandy3129]

"wallacebell4311," Clearly, a rhetorical question. Even though wildly outnumbered, those two Gatling guns when operated by proficient [accurate and fast] shooters, their lethal effectiveness could conceivably be equal to a hundred soldiers' each. The tally: hundreds of dead Sioux and Cheyenne; dozens of dead U.S. Army soldiers; the Indians racing off to regroup, formulate a 'Plan B' while the other companies of soldiers would have time to respond to the 'bring help' and 'be quick' S.O.S. pleas coming from Custer. Too bad a few of Custer's underlings didn't interject with offers that they insist they carry the state-of-the-art weapons, said soldiers so FEARFUL were they of the atrocities awaiting them, if captured individually or defeated as a unit.

[@Manpayi]

The carriages demonstrably were an issue, and are part of the reason Reno's horses were blown. They had taken one on a reconnaissance just before the fight and it caused massive issues. Not saying it was the right decision, but it certainly was a sound one if you consider Custers actual orders.

[@matthewstandefer2771]

great depictions of natives in their gear with feather headdress and spears and bows, but by this time many braves were armed with the latest repeating rifles. While most could not repair or fix the rifles, they we very adept in the usage.

[@johngaither9263]

While a very few Indians had repeaters, they had the never-ending problem of ammunition. They couldn't make it and with the decline of the bison they had nothing to trade with. It's why so many warriors still carried bows and arrows, lances and war clubs. Weapons they could make with the resources they had at hand. They were crude but effective in the hands of men who knew how to use them.

[@mygremlin1]

A little known fact the Calvary had single shot carbine's. The Indians had repeating Winchesters

[@user-wi9rf1zx5b]

well the "eroe" Custer refused the 2nd cavalry and Gatling guns + left behind those sabers well needed in face to face combat

[@danielblackburn1241]

That is very well known !

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

They also had Spencer’s, and Henry’s

[@retriever19golden55]

Some of the warriors had repeaters, many had older guns or none at all. The Springfield carbines the soldiers had were much more accurate at a distance than the repeaters, which were better for close combat. Many of the troopers were killed with arrows, many with clubs or knives when the fighting was hand-to-hand. It wasn't which weapons the warriors had, it was how many warriors there were on difficult terrain unfamiliar to the Army, with no cover.

[@retriever19golden55]

​​@@user-wi9rf1zx5b Custer absolutely was a legitimate hero in the Civil War. The officer in charge of the 2nd Cavalry agreed to go only if General Alfred Terry, commander of the entire expedition, went along in command over Custer. Terry wasn't in the best of health and preferred to stay with the steam ship as long as he could. Custer was to be a fast-moving scout/strike force (that's why Terry sent such a large force). Please stop with the Gatling guns. They were pulled by condemned cavalry horses and even less able to keep up with a column of cavalry than Custer's pack mule train (habitually miles behind the main column). The rough terrain would have necessitated the same frequent stops to push and pull the gun carriages over obstacles that Terry's men had to deal with. The battle was fast-moving over miles of terrain containing ravines, bluffs, and coulees. The Gatlings, had they made it that far, would have been abandoned out of necessity. The sabers, though, probably would have been good to have. Only Mathey and DeRudio brought theirs to kill snakes, but neither was with Custer's five companies. I agree Reno could have used them on his hilltop defense site, but how they could have been hauled up those steep bluffs that pack mules struggled to negotiate is another story. Yeah, the Gatlings would have saved Custer, because they would have delayed his arrival until after the village had packed up and left.

[@rockylucero937]

I've read countless results of Custer's battle at the Big Horn, and I have to say that sometimes you reap what you sow.

[@andrewstackpool4911]

Most commentators overlook important details of the situation leading up to the battle.

[@retriever19golden55]

What *who* sows? Soldiers generally "reap" what their government "sows" at the instigation of wealthy people. Soldiers do not make government policy, they don't sign treaties, they don't break treaties, they don't organize expeditions, and they don't give themselves orders. They just do their duty, and often die trying. This expedition was conceived by Sherman and Sheridan, and okayed by President Grant, because powerful men in the East wanted the "Indian problem" solved so they could profit from opening the West. Not a damn one of *them* risked their lives. Roughly 40% of the 7th Cavalry was made up of recent immigrants (the majority Irish and German). The Panic of '73 had devastated the economy (yeah, bankers and speculative financiers again), and jobs were very hard to find, so they signed up with the Army rather than starve. Lt. Col. Custer didn't conceive of this expedition or organize it; he wasn't even supposed to go on the expedition because Grant was angry with him (for testifying before the Clymer Committee investigating corruption in the awarding of contracts to supply the BIA with food and goods to the Natives on reservations, starving them...Grant's brother Orville was implicated). Sherman, Sheridan, and General Alfred Terry (the actual commander of the expedition) interceded on Custer's behalf because they needed him with the 7th Cavalry.

[@kcalhoun32]

@@retriever19golden55 And so the statement stands, "you reap what you sow."

[@raydonica6723]

Sad day for both sides.

[@sv5813]

Stupid wars

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

This document constitutes one opinion by men who by this time, wished to explain away and blame Custer for the general failure of the entire Campaign of 1876, which is ridiculous. A complete and thoroughly objective review of all the materials, including the latest analysis of the battlefield archeology, consult Gregory Micno's "The Mystery of E Company." Custer had no way of knowing that Crook had left the field a week earlier and that Terry and Gibbon were a day behind schedule. His job, as Lt. Godfrey recounts in his dairy (with Benteen's command), was to punish the Indians and drive them back to the reservations via a concerted effort of the entire campaign's forces, and if he had not attacked, he would have been blamed. The reasons for his dividing up his command make perfect sense when studied in detail. Custer sent Benteen out to cover the flank of his remaining forces by making sure that no hostiles were waiting in the ravines he sent Benteen to cover. In the Inquiry, it was revealed that Benteen was dawdling and did not think they would find the Indians that day. It was also well reported that Reno was a drunkard and was drinking on the day of the battle. Beteen disobeyed Custer's orders to come up. Custer waited as long as he could for Bentwen and then deployed his companies into a battle square. The Napoleonic Battle Square was a standard tactic and it is well demonstrated (by Michno) that others including Custer in 1873 had repelled similar numbers of hostiles in 1872 and in 1868, and that if Benteen had brought his troops up as commanded, he would have had more than enough men to discourage the Sioux and Cheyenne that day. Because of these important facts being left out of this video and discussion, it constitutes a repeat of old, debunked, and/or mitigated through wider, more informed, and objective analysis. I recommend that anyone truly interested in the most objective review of all materials, including Indian recollections and the latest battlefield archeological analysis of the battle, read Gregory MIchno's "The Mystery of E Company."

[@Havoscar]

Imagine if this comment actually had anything to do with the content of the video. Did you even watch the video??

[@Rich-fi7kg]

I heard they found trooper heads in camp fires, that had burned out.

[@genekelly8467]

A question: Custer's pocket watch turned up sometime in the 1920s...where is it today?

[@josephshields2922]

The Western Heritage Museum in Billings Montana. It was pawned off to a bartender or pawnbroker in the 1930's by a Native American.

[@willong1000]

While not mutilated to the same degree as many of his troopers, George A. Custer was most definitely treated to "special attention" in the aftermath of the battle. The truth was withheld from Libbie, but it is easy enough to discover on the web today.

[@prenticefaber9626]

The term savage" has meaning

[@retriever19golden55]

That's a term I avoid. They weren't "savage," they had a different culture.

[@johngaither9263]

Look at their culture and accomplishments. They built nothing permanent. There are no stone pyramids or temples. No gold, silver or precious stone treasures and no writing or documentation of anything except oral histories passed on from one holy man to the next. If they do not represent savagery, then I do not know what does.

[@user-xw9uh7xu6k]

Lieutenant Colonel Custer, not General Custer.

[@andrewstackpool4911]

Brigadier

[@retriever19golden55]

His regular Army rank at the time was Lt. Col. "General" was a courtesy title from his brevet rank in the Civil War volunteer army.

[@lioness7582]

He was still called general out of courtesy.

[@joecentral-o9984]

I see this comment so often I wonder if you're getting paid for it. Like we get it. But your dick isn't growing because you've made a comment that a ton of other have. Congratulations

[@glennwolfe3462]

If they kept going, instead of splitting up and running..you never know how far they would have went

[@danielblackburn1241]

They would of all died

[@eltonjohnson1724]

Thank you very much for this information. Unless I have been looking in the wrong places, I have not found a whole lot of information on what injuries were inflicted on the bodies of Custer's men. I have often wondered what effect this had on the troopers who saw and buried the bodies. In the reports that have been passed down that I have seen, the soldiers reporting seem very indifferent and unaffected by the horrors they describe. I know that if the same atrocities were done to US soldiers today by our enemies, a lot of soldiers who would see this would eventually suffer from PTSD. It seems like this did not happen to soldiers back then.

[@d.r.4453]

The symptoms associated with PTSD most certainly did exist back then but it wasn't called PTSD. PTSD, as we now call it, didn't become a recognized illness until the Vietnam war around 1968-69. At the time of the American Civil War and the wars on the plains afterwards there was a condiditon often referred to as "Soldiers Heart". The symptoms of "Soldiers Heart" were pertty much the same as those now associated with PTSD. Even as far back as ancient times, documents can be found that describe conditions similar to PTSD among soldiers. "War neurosis", "Combat Fatigue", "Shell Shock" among others are early names for PTSD. So yes, soldiers have been affected by what they did and saw for as long as humans have been at war.

[@MrClean3381]

I'm sure many did.. Captain Weir definitely had PTSD

[@markcrampton5873]

It happened they didn't understand it; so they didn't talk about it.

[@rockwellrhodes7703]

It happened, but, people were harder in those days, their lives were primitive in comparison with the soft life we live. They had to be tough or they didn't survive.

[@retriever19golden55]

Richard Hardorff's two volumes, The Custer Casualties Vol. I and II, are the best source. Hardorff has compiled eyewitness accounts of the bodies, comparing similarities and differences between the accounts. Interesting reading, I recommend it. As for PTSD...not all the casualties of the battle died that day. There's a long list of suicides and deaths by alcoholism in the following years.

[@Prfdt3]

I road a book called black elk speaks.black elk was a participant in that battle.he was a ghost dancer.

[@jimvanbrocklin2060]

I read the book also. By John G Neihardt.

[@mikemorse8609]

i have read that crippling an opponent after dearh cripples them in the afterlife. Whether that is truly First Peoples belief it has been repeated. Our aversion to touching the dead causes us to be outraged by such stories. The same sentiment that glorified Custer and made him a national hero obscures the lessons of the past.

[@bartbucklin7433]

Girisy for all. I've have in life learned and was fascinated about history the West , the battle there.. Sad how history unfolds when its terribly resulted in blunder, All in all hopefully a learning lesson for all. One question I have , With great respect for Sitting Bull, Knowing his deep trances, and visions , in wound sacrifices on his arms being exhausted. he stayed in the Village when battle took place. I wonder if he after batttle rode up to Custer's area on the hill to check it out. before they headed to Canada?

[@user-nk5me3vx7x]

They were not wild animals, but much worse than that....

[@dew02300]

So how did this all work out for the Indians?

[@texaskidzuk]

The white man said this land was ours as long as the grass grows and the river flows, but, as you can see, we got screwed. 😢

[@johngaither9263]

"Poorly" but the writing was already on the wall for them. The bison were nearly gone and with them the primary food source of most of the plain's tribes were no more. There was no future in pursuing their lives the way they had. To this day a substantial number of Indians refuse to accept and enter the culture they still consider the enemy. The fighting and dying are over but the Indian wars have not really ended because they still want the land back.

[@west4057]

@@johngaither9263 we got f----cked and that is why there was so much mutilation, the hate runs deep.

[@EdA-qh7qr]

The native Americans were here for thousands of years before any European came to America then the new comers tell them your land is ours now the native Americans got screwed big time and still are

[@robbie6954]

And the first nations people are still fighting for their rights 😢

[@EdA-qh7qr]

I know the great grandson of sitting bull he lived in Northern Michigan and the man was huge about 7 foot tall

[@fredrickgarcia9376]

If there were soldiers that had been killed in the village, then there were survivors of the battle, yes? Didn’t survive much longer than that, but they survived the battle. Or am I not understanding?

[@JohnnyButtons]

2:09 Custer wasn’t a General when he was killed.

[@IntheBlood67]

Thanks fer the great INTELL!

[@4catsnow]

No intel, compounded by a total lack of situational awareness...and interestingly duplicated at the Il Drang valley in 1965 vietnam....

[@thorny6021]

Combat fatigue, battle fatigue, shell shock, were names given to mental conditions soldiers suffered from exposure to the trauma of battle before more scientific study of the condition during and after the Vietnam war termed it Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The condition had been noticed for centuries, but there were no effective medical treatments available or enough scientific knowledge about diagnosis. An important result of extensive study of the condition was the the knowledge that the onset of the condition often occurred months or even years after the traumatic event(s). Your snide remark about the men burying Custer and his command seeing terrible things but apparently not being affected by the experience is irrelevant. They may well have been mentally affected, but exhibited symptoms months or years later.

[@31terikennedy]

Why did they wait so long to bring what was left of Custer's body back? As it is, they think (?) they brought the right bones back.

[@tattoobillyband7725]

Just subscribed

[@mickaderholt3534]

No tears for Custer,only his troopers. His ego finally caught up with him.

[@andrewstackpool4911]

Rubbish. Custer found himself in an invidious position that blew away his intentions. The new Woke expert. Joke

[@nonenone4880]

custer was an idiot.

[@retriever19golden55]

That's a modern myth. Fred Chiaventone, a combat vet, an acknowledged expert on guerilla warfare, and a former instructor at the US Military College, wrote a novel about the battle called A Road We Do Not Know. In the foreword, he tells of participating in an Army Staff Ride at the Little Big Horn. Everyone on the exercise was an officer and a combat vet. They were given only the information available to Custer on June 25th, 1876. Chiaventone relates that, to their surprise, every one of them concluded that they would have used the same tactics as Custer. BTW...Custer was not commanding the expedition, General Alfred Terry was. Custer had zero involvement in setting government policy, or making or breaking treaties. He didn't conceive of the expedition or organize it. He was, in fact, ordered by President Grant *not* to go on the expedition. He was a professional soldier and badly wanted to stay with his 7th Cavalry and share in their dangers, and pleaded with Sherman and Sheridan to intercede on his behalf, which they did because they needed him.

[@johngaither9263]

And the end of "Custers Luck". Custer managed to stumble into the single largest gathering of hostile Indians in recorded history.

[@NN-hg4em]

At the time of his death his rank was of Lieutenant Colonel.

[@juliehudson6539]

I really love what you're doing here it's really awesome however there was mutilation done to Custer but not as severe as the rest that's because some Cheyenne women recognize him and said somehow that he had fathered a child with a Cheyenne lady they put an awl through his ear so he would hear better in the next life but that was hidden for a long time because they didn't want to hurt Libby custer. There was also an arrow shaft that was shoved up his penis. However yes he was not mutilated in the manner of many soldiers in which the manner of Plains Indians mutilated their dead enemies

[@31terikennedy]

Custer was bleeding from the ears because he was shot in the head and his brain was bleeding. The blood had to go somewhere.

[@stephenburke5967]

Complete nonsense.

[@retriever19golden55]

The arrow story being suppressed to spare Libbie's feelings is likely true, but the Cheyenne women recognizing Custer and the awl story is hogwash. None of the Natives knew Custer was there, they thought the troops were Crook's, whom they'd fought to a standstill on the Rosebud ten days before. Doubtful the man they knew as Longhair would have been recognized, since he was balding and had very short hair at the time (likely why he wasn't scalped). Monahseta, the Cheyenne woman he supposedly had a child with, was already pregnant by her husband when she was captured at the Washita. Custer and his wife wanted children but never had any because Custer was sterile from contracting an STD as a cadet at West Point (likely the result of the treatment more than the disease). It's likely Tom Custer had a child, but not George.

[@mikechampion1614]

Custer had earlier left a unit of soldiers to die. When he could of saved them but chose glory.to chase down some indians. Other than the men who died with Custer. Custer doesn't really get any sympathy from me or many others. Bentin not coming to his aid.(His reasoning was sound) Was a bit of kerma.

[@1339LARS]

Thanks,, //Lars

[@ericgibson2079]

Farher Creator, Under our Lords name, Bless these comments and this channel. Let the American people learn to know you and your authority, that we may learn and know what to do for this Nation today. Help us to know respect and apply it properly. To help rewrite our truth in all american history. Amen

[@bobwallace9814]

Custer was well known amongst the Indians. He was a rock star. He had been shot through the body crossing the river to round up women and children to use as bargaining chips to end the hostilities. He was dragged from the river and back to the command post (hill). He also had a point blank shot to the temple by his own pistol. I doubt he was even alive during the final assault by Indians.

[@jackmoorehead2036]

A perfect example of Ego leading and ignoring Intel.

[@andrewstackpool4911]

He had no intel that was the issue, plus being detected by opponents. There was the issue.

[@retriever19golden55]

That's a modern myth. Fred Chiaventone, a combat vet, an acknowledged expert on guerilla warfare, and a former instructor at the US Military College, wrote a novel about the battle called A Road We Do Not Know. In the foreword, he tells of participating in an Army Staff Ride at the Little Big Horn. Everyone on the exercise was an officer and a combat vet. They were given only the information available to Custer on June 25th, 1876. Chiaventone relates that, to their surprise, every one of them concluded that they would have used the same tactics that Custer used.

[@Ralphie5023]

NAPOLEON met his demise on Sunday June 25th at Waterloo 61 years earlier .

[@lonestarbug]

True.

[@Serjo777]

Why did they cut off the names from the clothing?

[@user-wi9rf1zx5b]

for souvenirs

[@retriever19golden55]

Maybe to avoid proving they took part in the battle if they were found with the items? I don't really know. It's a good question. I'll ask someone who knows more than I.

[@josephshields2922]

By 1876 most Native Americans knew what paper money was. The ones at little bighorn escaped from reservation in the Dakotas so I am sure they knew they could buy guns, food, coffee, or Whiskey with it so I am skeptical about them throwing it away. I am also skeptical about a soldiers carry $500. That was a down payment on a farm in those days. These guys got paid less than $30 a month and usually spent their paycheck before they got the next one and many were immigrants.

[@Havoscar]

And yet, these are first person narratives. Do we actually pretend to know more than the people on the ground at the time?

[@davidanthony4845]

@se461 Wounded Knee was 14 years later.

[@johnbest7740]

Excellent video and very informative. Much better than the usual AI voice 20 minutes of useless deatil concerning this topic.

[@xray86delta]

I believe the description of Custer's body was accurate, but did he fail to mention he was stripped also? I believe that's how they found him.

[@EdA-qh7qr]

The native American used the clothing that is the reason the soldiers were stripped

[@infolover_68]

Well, after years and years of Indians being robbed and evicted from their native lands, I doubt there would be no disastreous consequences... That is what unjust wars produce!...

[@gregcaterino7110]

Custer got exactly what he was looking for 🤣 what a fool he was

[@andrewstackpool4911]

He was no fool. He was caught up in a situation that overwhelmed him. But of course 21C armchair Privates know better.

[@scasey1960]

Brutal Native American customs not seen today

[@EdA-qh7qr]

They were not brutal they were fighting for there survival how would treat an enemy if they killed your family and took everything you had America tried the same thing in vietnam and got our ass handed to us

[@greghilbers4697]

A bunch of new knowledge.

[@redswingline262]

Not

[@nimitz1739]

It’s interesting to say the marble white bodies. I thought by that point they had been sitting outside for a day or two. Seems like they would’ve been burned in the sun

[@user-wi9rf1zx5b]

maybe the indians after killing them, they painted them white? 😢

[@Fat12219]

The great tribes of northern plains !

[@se461]

After Wounded Knee and the many massacres of Indian Villages the Indians finally got their revenge.

[@hibabe5038]

Wounded Knee was on December 29, 1890.long after this battle . Read up on history .

[@user-iw8pg8kq2q]

Indians got, and R still getting revenge. Indians introduced tobacco 2 the world. Hw many people, including indians, hv died, and will die in the future FM tobacco related illnesses?

[@jimmyanderson2988]

Old cluster wound up getting his whole out fit wiped out because of poor decisions on his part !!!!! There’s a reason why he finished almost last in his class at west point!!!!! And surely wasn’t good at math or counting for that matter !!!! Arrogance will get you every time and he just got a taste of his own medicine !!!!

[@johngaither9263]

Custer and 5 of the 12 companies of the 7th cavalry were wiped out at the Little Big Horn battle. The other 7 companies suffered varying degrees of casualties but were not wiped out. Compared to the casualties in civil war battles it was little more than a skirmish.

[@4wheelliving132]

That Custer flag belongs in the Smithsonian

[@robertkondrk1086]

Custer was not a general.

[@lestersabados1306]

If native Americans were treated with respect, European settlers could have learned how to treat the Earth.

[@Saxxonknight]

Why did I see a laughing hyena before the video. Please choose ads more carefully, I don't appreciate beggars.

[@user-qy1nb4hi6s]

I still can’t believe the brutal animals had gravestones on the hill but not one single Indian gravestone.

[@tcarroll3954]

Horrible.

[@user-qy8ld8du1u]

What has always amazes me is that indians/native Americans always claim that the land was theirs. My question is this, who decided it was your land? It was not their land. That is a cold hard fact.

[@EdA-qh7qr]

So you are saying if I want your house I can just take it because I don't think you deserve to live there funny how that is only true for the people who lived on the land for tens of thousands of years and not for the people who stole it

[@ChuckoMountain-fv9yj]

Cut all the gory stories. I want to hear about who, and how Custer came to his end.

[@TheScotian82]

For all the one-way sympathies demanded these days...The reality is, the savages lost in the end, and thats a good thing.

[@EdA-qh7qr]

You call them savages when they were fighting for there way of life and there families the settlers killed millions of bison just for fun now who was the real savages

[@lonestarbug]

Agree.

[@scottwins2]

Poor ammunition would not fire. Major issue

[@charleshammer2928]

Is that a documented fact?

[@retriever19golden55]

Most historians don't believe the occasional jamming of the corroding copper casings was a major issue, but it probably did happen a few times.

[@johngaither9263]

Custers personal rifle was a Remington Rolling Block in caliber 50/70 government. He bought commercial brass cased ammunition rather than use the government copper cased rounds. There are photos of him in the Black Hills with game he shot and of the rifle.

[@risingwolf5368]

Well, nothing really new here.

[@andrewstackpool4911]

Leave the AI voice and amateur dramatics. There is a pathos story to be told ere. You aren't making it.

[@infoscholar5221]

Colonialism was still a bit of an issue.

[@user-tl2qn1qi1g]

You Yanks are allways getting your butt kicked by inferior opponents.

[@will-i-am-not]

Justice was a long time coming for the American Indian, but they found it at the Big Horn

[@johngaither9263]

The victory served the Indians well? I think not.

[@JohnDoe-ot3zd]

And people wonder why the Indians were treated the way they were....

[@rogercude1459]

They are the true Americans! Whites are Europeans😂

[@daveperry7719]

The American army didn't exactly treat the Indians any better did they?

[@garyorum1590]

Casinos are payback

[@EdA-qh7qr]

​@@Bill32H-it3svit's funny how the winner gets to call the one they are trying to oppress a savage just like the British did in India and South America when these people were just living there lives until the white man decided they had something they could exploit

[@jimmyanderson2988]

Old cluster wound up getting his whole out fit wiped out because of poor decisions on his part !!!!! There’s a reason why he finished almost last in his class at west point!!!!! And surely wasn’t good at math or counting for that matter !!!! Arrogance will get you every time and he just got a taste of his own medicine !!!!

[@johngaither9263]

Not his whole outfit. Five out of the twelve companies of the 7th cavalry died with Custer.