Comments on: Little Big Horn

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:22:13 +0000

One Lakota oral history avers that Custer took his own life, but his fatal wound was in the right chest, and Wikipedia states, “Several Indian accounts do note multiple soldiers committing suicide near the end of the battle, but the claim of Custer’s suicide is usually discounted since he was right-handed.”

There is also good evidence that four young Northern Cheyenne “Suicide Boys” (Little Whirlwind, Cut Belly, Closed Hand and Noisy Walking), wielding only bow and arrow and clubs, charged the soldiers, stampeded their horses and engaged the troops in hand-to-hand, thus enabling the other Indians to get in close enough to finish the battle.

By: doug hundley

doug hundley — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:48:27 +0000

Is there any evidence that anyone knows about to indicate whether some, or even most, of Custer’s men killed themselves when they realized the fate that awaited them at the hands of their attackers?

By: Abi

Abi — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:43:56 +0000

hag·i·og·ra·phy
1. Biography of saints.
2. A worshipful or idealizing biography.
(American Heritage Dictionary)

You still can teach me new stuff, Dad!