|
|
Post by Cutter on Aug 11, 2011 0:29:51 GMT -5
Geeeez, I'll try this again. Why oh why do they call them "smart phones"?. Sir Strange, why would you conclude that GAC had a slash in his thigh that was proof he didn't comment suicide? That's a fuzzy. LSH is a testament to "hell hath no fury.......".
|
|
cinnamon
Sergeant
our love will last forever
Posts: 132
|
Post by cinnamon on Aug 11, 2011 4:10:51 GMT -5
The prove is just that the wound was in the wrong side for a right handed. If it was not Custer the task of this issue, we wouldn't even talk about it.
|
|
|
|
Post by whitebull on Aug 11, 2011 11:43:54 GMT -5
Can you believe it?: The tribal identity of the Indians who killed the soldiers could be identified by the wounds of their bodies: Those laying face down were likely killed by Cheyenne; Slashed thigh by Sioux; If the women and little ones got a hold of you, the body was reduced to jelly for the most part. The viciousness of the women is often equated with their grief and anger of the death of relatives in past and current battles. The field was said to have been littered with hands, heads, feet, and legs. If Custer was slashed through the thigh, would this prove almost for a fact that he didn't commit suicide or would they try to claim him as theirs even just for wounding him or finding his body or being in that area? I think a Sioux counted coup on Custer after he was wounded or dead. he could have been shot and diced by the same Indian or the events could have by two different ones. |
|
|
|
Post by whitebull on Aug 11, 2011 11:50:39 GMT -5
Hey, I got one for the forum! I read that Boston Custer was so gullible that once his brothers gave him a rock and told him it was a Sponge Rock. If you soaked it long enough it would get soft. He soaked the rock for a few nights before he finally caught on that he had been tricked! Can you believe that? ;D   |
|
|
|
Post by joewiggs on Aug 11, 2011 11:54:37 GMT -5
"Bos" was born on October 31, 1848. At his death, he was young but certainly not a child. Hard to believe that a grown man fell for that one!  |
|
cinnamon
Sergeant
our love will last forever
Posts: 132
|
Post by cinnamon on Aug 11, 2011 13:07:55 GMT -5
yes, I think too. It's kinda metropolitan legend, a bit like the greatest bike runner of all time, Eddy Mercks, that was said to sleep with a key to regulate his bike under his pillow.
|
|
|
|
Post by crazycanuck on Aug 12, 2011 8:05:49 GMT -5
Maybe the older Custer brothers at the battle of the LBH(an exercise in futility fighting a million peeved off Indians) were actually more gullible than Boston and his sponge rock exercise in futility. Are you sure the older brothers didn't think the rock would get soft as well ?
|
|
|
|
Post by joewiggs on Aug 12, 2011 11:22:10 GMT -5
As strange as this story is, CC, anything is possible.  At another point, the brothers rode ahead of Boston, rid behind a ridge while Boston attempted to remove a stone from his horse's shoe. Custer and Tom then fired over his head. Believing the Indians were after his scalp, Boston made a quick dash for safety. His older siblings thought his anxiety was hilarious. |
|
cinnamon
Sergeant
our love will last forever
Posts: 132
|
Post by cinnamon on Aug 12, 2011 13:52:31 GMT -5
what a bunch of idiots those custers
|
|
|
|
Post by whitebull on Aug 12, 2011 20:44:04 GMT -5
Maybe the older Custer brothers at the battle of the LBH(an exercise in futility fighting a million peeved off Indians) were actually more gullible than Boston and his sponge rock exercise in futility. Are you sure the older brothers didn't think the rock would get soft as well ? I gotta admit, them brothers were a bit strange when it come to jokes! |
|
cinnamon
Sergeant
our love will last forever
Posts: 132
|
Post by cinnamon on Aug 13, 2011 8:35:03 GMT -5
it came from family. All the Custers were joking. Emmanuel father, too. And he was sometimes the task of their jokes as they was of his own jokes too. It was not unusual to see Dad Emanuel sitting on a chair that was moved and so falling legs in air.
|
|
|
|
Post by stumblingbear on Aug 20, 2011 12:23:27 GMT -5
Actually, to me, the way the family joked together can be translated into a bond between them that too many families no longer have.  |
|
|
|
Post by joewiggs on Aug 20, 2011 19:37:26 GMT -5
Can you believe that some of the soldiers desecrated Indian graves/scaffolds prior to the battle? One body was unwrapped and thrown into the river by Isiah Dorman. General Custer, Tom, Boston, and Harry Reed searched for and got souvenirs like beaded moccasins, arrows, and utensils. it was said then that the Custer's and McIntosh's would be sorry for the looting. They were! |
|
|
|
Post by joewiggs on Aug 26, 2011 15:07:18 GMT -5
As early as May 16, Col. John Gibbon was told by his scouts that a large Indian village was located somewhere in the valley of the Little Big horn.
Eventually, Gibbon's camp was directly across the river from the village. In fact, attempts to cross the river to attack the village were terminated when several horses drowned in the attempt.
Gibbon never told his superior (Terry) about this information until June 9, when he arrived at the mouth of the Powder River.
Can you believe that?!
|
|
|
|
Post by whitebull on Aug 26, 2011 16:12:30 GMT -5
Can you believe this. At the Reno trial, Edgerly didn't find too much bad to say about Reno or anyone else for that matter. That being the case, how do you explain this:
"To share some personnel recollections of your husband which I wrote at the time after the battle, and which I didn't have the heart to send you until I waited so long I was ashamed to write."
A letter to Libbie Custer Oct. 10, 1877.
What were these recollections he wanted to share? Why did he wait so long that he became ashamed he didn't write? Was it something he didn't talk about at the trial?
|
|
