The Untold Story: Sergeant John Martin's Harrowing Tale of Custer's Last Stand

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Prepare to be captivated by the gripping account of Sergeant John Martin, the sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand. In this extraordinary video, delve into the harrowing experiences of Sergeant Martin, a retired United States Army veteran, as he shares his firsthand recollections of the infamous battle. From the fateful encounters with General Custer to the relentless onslaught of the Indian warriors, witness the courage and resilience that defined Sergeant Martin's survival. Join us as we unravel the untold story of one man's journey through the iconic clash of cultures on the American frontier. Don't miss this riveting tale of bravery, sacrifice, and the indomitable spirit of the human soul. Subscribe now and hit the notification bell to never miss an episode of our captivating historical series!"

[@arctodussimus6198]

The part where Custer said it would be an easy battle, just women and children and dogs, seems accurate. The Cheyenne called Custer “woman killer”, as was his policy to attack non-combatants.

[@robertspecht1911]

The timing of the Battle is wrong. Custer's dismisse on last stand hill was between 4pm to 5pm that day.

[@31terikennedy]

Martin wasn't with Custer during the Last Stand.

[@Iowahorse]

The whole vid was a farce.

[@31terikennedy]

@@Iowahorse Most every thing about the LBH is. Slobhan Fallon does a pretty good job, though.

[@gregghorner9107]

Yep, and this production takes his claim at face value.

[@mottthehoople693]

course he was.You wouldnt know if your arse was on fire

[@31terikennedy]

@@mottthehoople693 Hey Weep, if he were he would be dead like the rest of Custer's Command. Leave to a Brit to get it wrong. Duh!

[@pimpompoom93726]

Interesting, a number of inaccuracies in this account. Martin had either forgotten or was taking literary license to embellish the story for readers. Or, if this was a summary assembled by a journalist, THEY made up some things. Martin's actual story would have been fascinating to hear in detail, I wish they had stuck to the facts.

[@chardtomp]

If I remember right, this interview was conducted when Martin was quite elderly, and his memory was noticeably failing.

[@rogerross6583]

They did the same thing Curly, the Indian scout" I don’t believe curly said much of what was claimed. ‘ he wrapped a Sioux around him and got away. Ya, right.sounds Ike something a white man who knows nothing about the Indians would say.

[@rogerross6583]

Wrapped a Sioux blanket around himself . ‘ the reporters would twist questions and twist the answers to get the stories they want.

[@jjdjj5392]

The photos are cowboys not soldiers

[@Iowahorse]

Oh there was worse than that

[@mottthehoople693]

so what are you a child? You think there was a camera on site?

[@brianjohnshort7367]

If you're telling a story. At least get the historically correct clothing right. See this problem 2 many times

[@ltraf9701]

Thank You

[@johngaither9263]

US cavalry did not fight in squares and archeological investigation early in the 21st century after fires had burned off the prairie grass proved it. Fired 45/70 casings and fallen soldier markers demonstrated the men were in skirmish lines and not in squares. Martin was either making up as he went along or was reliving a Napoleonic era battle.

[@Iowahorse]

The whole vid was a train wreck.

[@keithwalker1850]

❤c

[@russellhogan2708]

It’s “Benteen”. And Reno had probably been drinking.

[@tooter1able]

Martin did not see anything other than the attack at Medicine Tail Coulee. He delivered his message to Benteen with whom he stayed for the duration of the battle.

[@glenvillephillips8293]

How can he tell how it happened when he was not there everyone knows custers whole command was killed only after the fact did the others saw the aftermath I do not like anything that is not fact if your going to tell history get it right.

[@alphacharlietango969]

Never relinquish your means of self-defense

[@steve-mr8be]

What a pile of buffalo chips.

[@clydeosterhout1221]

Memories are a funny thing. They change over time, especially when exposed to additional information. This account is an interesting combination of what was personally observed and what he heard afterwards. It is similar in detail to the testimonies offered by Reno, Benteen, and the other officers at the 1879 inquiry. Like all of the accounts it offers valuable insights, but it has to be taken in the proper context, and evaluated as such. To be honest, I am surprised at how accurate much of the account was.

[@danedwards8535]

Pictures of African buffalos

[@bubbastoner5277]

There are so many of these stories, I have read the minutes of the military investigation into the battle, there was more than one survivor.

[@f1david]

Rear guard? Never heard this before. 🤷‍♂️

[@EVILDR235]

Why is the cowboy towards the end of this video holding a rifle with a scope on it ?

[@Waxer72ndVFW]

The AI-generated images suck

[@pelonehedd7631]

The dead buffalo pictures are not of North American Bison. The structure in the photo looks African or India Indian. It would be very easy to get photos that are actually of the subject matter.

[@cornbread9763]

These photos??????

[@Gungho1a]

Wildebeest. They aren't even any form of buffalo, let alone bison, and definitely not in USA.

[@MadrasArsenal]

This AI crap is going to rewrite history.

[@larry1824]

Giovanni Martini retired to Brooklyn

[@user-ky4kb2yo6u]

Utterly inaccurate and should be taken down in the interest of historical fact. Extremely misleading. Shameful!

[@johnh1508]

Wrong kind of buffalo. Pictures from Asia and the southwest? Not one pic of Montana.

[@barn6079]

OMG, this is SO inaccurate, and made up! Obviously written by someone who has blended a bunch of recorded observations, along with various suppositions over the years...... I've read some statements from "John Martin": he knew he got really lucky that day! His English was very poor at the time.

[@rogerross6583]

Custer did not choose the messenger, Lt. Crook did

[@zekesgirl100]

Cooke.

[@user-xj1fu8bd8m]

Are you sure, maybe Lt. Crook was used by Custer

[@jjdjj5392]

Most soldiers did not wear cowboy hats...

[@scotttilson4040]

Even though custard still would’ve lost. If they would’ve kept their forces together, instead of splitting them up. And used more modern day repeating rifles. The Indians would’ve lost a vast majority of their soldiers. Custer and his men were in the wrong. What they did to the Indians was wrong.

[@rogerross6583]

The cavalry during the civil war just before Gettysburg were issued 7 shot carbines.after the war .July first , with the seven shot carbines held back the advance of the southern much longer than with the single shot carbines that were issued at the beginning of the war. General Custer also received these seven shot carbines and used them with great effect to hold their own. And drove Stuart from the field, stopping Stuart from hitting Mead’s force from a rear attack and changing the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg. But after the war. Better heads in Washington ( they thought they knew better) sole the better gun as war surplus. Custer was give the single shot carbine, that proved there were no better heads. Politics stink, it always did and it still does today.

[@Robo67-24]

It's easy to start at the end of battle or war and work your way backwards and see where they went wrong. Custer was following orders to get the Indians back on the reservations. Only today we see it as wrong. Hindsight is a good thing

[@1339LARS]

LJ!!!!!!

[@mikewasniewski4048]

1:09 "the morning of the 26th" . I believe they were all dead on the 25th.

[@daviddougan6961]

See below.

[@LPORanger]

The photos are ridiculous...dead wildebeest as bison, cowboys instead of cavalry, an Indian with a sword, etc.

[@CaptainChip501]

I must say Benteen did hurry but not much fast. And did not really insist on heading to Custer.

[@rogerross6583]

He was not shot in the side of his head!!!

[@johnmyers4696]

He was shot in the left temple to insure death. No one knows if it was from an Indian or a soldier but he was definitely shot in the head.

[@herrent]

Why are they using photos of the Serengeti on a video about the American west

[@alasdairgreig2705]

Sounds like "John Martin" was at Waterloo. Cool story though.

[@BruceWSims]

AFAIK there was a single person to survive actual hostile fire in the battle, though the circumstances and the individual himself were heavily censored. The soldier reported that his horse had started into a gallop at the same time the he was seriously wounded causing the soldier to be carried away from the fight. There followed a tale of being a wounded soldier alone on the prairie with indians seeking after him. He found shelter and was tended by a kind of hermit whose hovel he came across. He later made his way into Wiscosin or Minnesota. I believe that the story was surpressed because it could not be proven that the soldier had not run from the battle in its earliest actions and deserted. Just sayin......

[@rogerross6583]

Was that Custer ( bald guy with beard ?) in the room with his staff? Uh!

[@axeltee1968]

This is most surely AI generated content! Many inacurrarcies, wrong pictures, typical AI voice, which i heard on some other channels. Sure signs for AI working... don't watch this!

[@Gene-kl1br]

Morning of the 26th ? No

[@davidwinter6148]

This is a professional video relaying true facts?

[@LeeBartoletti]

Giovanni Martini, although some say Martino.

[@scotttilson4040]

It’s good that guy survived the battle. But he was being used by the devil just as the government was. The Indians had every right to fight back for their survival. Most people in America at the time had nothing to do with the persecution of the Indians. It was the government that was the problem.that guy that survive was fighting for the wrong side.

[@dukecraig2402]

This video is full of all kinds of inaccuracies, the biggest one being that he "survived Custer's last stand", he did not because he wasn't there, no white person that was an eyewitness survived to tell about it, before Custer led his men down into the trap that wiped them out he sent Martin to carry a message to one of his Captains in charge of a troop, it was with them that Martin found himself in a fight he survived, as far as what happened to Custer he wasn't there to witness it.

[@robertmalfy8552]

The Indians weren't entitled to any land they built nothing that lasted never invented anything that benefited society if the Europeans didn't settle America they would still be in the stonage

[@nickvandergraaf1053]

I hope I never make an AI video like this.

[@jimfindlay8089]

Got too suck too be the 2 messengers that were turned down to deliver the message.

[@mikehunt-fx7sf]

lol !!

[@stuartjarman4930]

Trumpeter Martin was a member of Benteen's Company H, so logical to send him with a message to his own captain

[@hiddenfromhistory100]

A pretty self serving account by Martini

[@stevenvanover8773]

Discovery was 25th. Not 26th

[@joe6796]

George Armstrong Custer

[@JohnnyTofil]

He was just doing as order.Its 2024 and people are worse .

[@jayloomis9651]

Totally inaccurate McDougal guarded the pack train Ben 10 was ordered to do a left oblique to search for The Village Reno was told to cross the river and charge the village and Custer would support him with his whole battalion

[@armyvet8279]

Were you there?? He was

[@31terikennedy]

@@armyvet8279 So you know for a fact he's telling the truth?

[@markfox6596]

You're right... He was not on last stand hill.. this is nowhere near accurate. He was the last trooper to see the 5 companies.. Reno, Benteen never got into the last fight on last stand hill.

[@31terikennedy]

@@markfox6596 More nonsense is written about Custer.

[@stuartjarman4930]

Captain McDougal commanded B company which was assigned as the regimental rearguard. Lt. Edward G. Mathey was the officer assigned to be in charge of the pack train and its permanent personnel. When asked at the court of inquiry about the "effective force" McDougall had "with the pack train that day," McDougall replied, "My company was composed of about 45 men, and there were about 80 men belonging to the pack train, and 5 or 6 civilian packers.

[@charleswalter2902]

I have read volumes on the battle & the preliminaries leading up to it. This account is full of errors when compared to the accounts given by Philbrick & others. Giuseppe Martini did not witness the battle, neither did any from Reno's group all the did was hear intense gunfire. I personally feel that "Wildwestfaces" offers some of the best info on lots of wild west stuff.

[@billknapp8750]

Bentine?

[@mtr633]

These images/artwork are all messed up. Cactus and mesas? Cowboys? Asian Buffalo? Civil war battle scene @ 4:32? Modern day soldiers on horseback wearing helmets @ 5:18? Poorly done

[@Steve-qt9ce]

Thats gotta be the worst KZbin video I've ever seen☠️

[@mikehunt-fx7sf]

lol !! I agree!

[@Frank-pi2gz]

I THOUGHT CUSTER WAS THE ONLY SOLDIER LEFT STANDING, AND WAS LAST SEEN SWINGING HIS RIFLE, " OLD BETSY " AT THE ON COMING INDIANS.😢

[@tbcoachniblick1208]

Not the SOLE survivor....sent back with message was not with Custer massacre.

[@user-xj1fu8bd8m]

Yes, sometimes death can be minutes away without concern. The grace gospel is so very important for salvation 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and also read Ephesians 2:8-9. Do not think it takes a battle for death to come, maybe only a vaccine.

[@mikebell719]

There are no buffalo in the United States, there are only Bison.

[@mikehunt-fx7sf]

And there are no giraffes in Africa.

[@gonnafish]

Tell that to Native Americans. I’ll call them buffalo too. Common names can be whatever you want. Genus and species names are what’s important in identification.

[@sheepsfoot2]

Regardless what the proper name is , those bloody bovines 2:01 look nothing like anything that walked > north America or anywhere else for that matter 😂> American Bison NO , south African Cape Buffalo NO , Asian water Buffalo NO !

[@mikerichard6962]

This video is a bunch of Cow Cookies !

[@Defender78]

why is this narrated in a British voice, oh yeah - for the "distinguished orator effect", um LBH was an American event

[@madlenellul3430]

Totally inaccurate .. There are far better accounts .. Trumpeter Martini, he of the last message fame, left Custer’s column before Custer’s battle began. I suggest you read one of the comments posted in a KZbin extract / presentation of Little Big Man. for a more ( possibly as we will never know ) accurate account. 👵🇦🇺🇺🇸

[@jaynesager3049]

The website Astonisher has many primary source documents regarding the Little Big Horn, including Reno’s official report.

[@jameshorton7496]

It's NOT Bentine! It's BENTEEN!

[@flynnt1953]

Poor presentation of an important historical event. Sounds like it was done by AI

[@mssmith3604]

That's spelled "Benteen."

[@andrewdraper3394]

Damn this was a good video!

[@mikehunt-fx7sf]

It was horrible.

[@Iowahorse]

Not even a bit of it

[@johnwarren1445]

Obviously you watched a different video than this load of rubbish

[@kevinsharkey1336]

Didn't answer the question.

[@58landman]

Nice story but not all there. And what's with the illustrations related to this event? Thumbs down.

[@seanohara85]

Much respect I have for native American people. This video is not good, it feels like a pizza hut/bbc collab.

[@kevinhurley7021]

testimony very inaccurate

[@dennisnull4613]

Bullshit, a real joke. couldn't watch past the "water Buffalo" picture. Martini could barely speak English in 1876.

[@johnzajac9849]

This is horse hockey.

[@mohicanmachine99]

Think we perfer pack of wolf's/warriors/ braves/ savages!! Hahaha

[@ElectroKinetic1977]

Custer shot himself in the head first and the shot in the chest came second from an Indian as they were witnessed shooting towards the ground because the dead grey horses were protecting Custers chest as he took cover and fired making only his head visible, he had the privilege of getting the most cover, his men surrounded him and the two dead horses as the gravestones suggest, when Custer saw that he had a few men left he shot himself in the head.....

[@markcrampton5873]

Did you see him shoot himself ? Custer was right handed & was shot in the left temple. Does that seem reasonable to you ? Also many people who saw Custer 's body said that there were no powder burns .

[@user-wj1xp8uo8e]

He was killed at the river his men took him to this supposed last stand hill Custer was dead his men disorganized and leaderless

[@rogerross6583]

Custer’s Fall is a very good book. I read it years ago, 1st edition, since then I have read three or four times. I don’t believe that was Custer who was sho at the river. That does sound good, maybe even reasonable but I believe some other officer may have been dressed similarly, it was him that was shot. I believe another book doses cover this piece, who or what book? Hey, I’m 78, I read too much. I’ll remember that someday. Not right now.

[@user-wj1xp8uo8e]

The bones were scattered all over they don't now who is in what grave take the skull they claim is Custer and DNA it

[@stevenvanover8773]

Rubbish. Wounds were on his left side. Custer was right handed

[@waynelayton8568]

This story is not whay happened. Cmon man. Sone English speaking dude!

[@user-tj4ie5xs9x]

What B.S

[@HistoryCases]

"B.C." (Before Christ)

[@guyfawkes8384]

crap ai generated images

[@celticnorthman3615]

All crap!!!

[@johnh1508]

Boo.

[@peterpayne6778]

There is no account of the nearby Indian village where all women and children were slaughtered prior to the battle,

[@raymonddonahue7282]

Not authentic

[@CaryChristopher-fi8lv]

I do wish the creator(s) of the video hadn't utilized so many stock photos of cowboys and Native Americans that seemingly had nothing to do with the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The narrator's voice was interesting to hear but the historical inaccuracies provided a very sour note on the whole video. I won't be subscribing if this video is characteristic of the work by History Cases. Sorry.

[@richardwilhelm1751]

Shameful 6:08

[@zutrue]

The only...white man??? There were far more indians that would have known more and seen more and done at the Greasy Grass Battle than this...white man. Far better to get the facts, if truth is what you are truly seeking, no matter the source.

[@tbcoachniblick1208]

Stupid Graphics....👎👎

[@hibabe5038]

Waste of time don't bother knows nothing about history

[@kylewood8327]

Probably Woke generated!

[@DennisFreitas-bn7nh]

Boring! Only for americans!

[@Eadbhard]

"A veteran of numerous Indian battles"? Martini fought the Sioux at the Little Bighorn, and that's it. He fought in the Spanish-American War, but the only battle where he ever fought Indians was the Little Bighorn. I stopped watching this bullshit video after 0:13.