Post by tbw on Feb 16, 2011 9:07:15 GMT -5
For quite a long time, many have proposed one theory or another, some have even gone so far as to propose their own timelines. Yet, throughout all of this effort, not all evidence has been found to support their contentions. Most if not all is their interpretation of events based upon statements and testimony of the participants involved, and as everyone knows by now, or should know, to arrive at the conclusions they have surmised, most if not all of those statements and testimony have to be denied or refuted for their conclusions as theory to be correct. Throughout all of their efforts, they fail to account, in many instances for 'lost time' and 'lost evidence' and prefer instead to travel that well worn road that has led many down the same path to the same conclusions without further enlightenment.
LOST TIME:
Just one among many of this phenomenon can be observed in the early morning hours of June 25th 1876. F. Girard stated that they camped about 5 miles from the divide, and he also related that Gen'l Custer awoke him at 4am, and from here the story apparently becomes a little fuzzy. Because supposedly between 4am and noon Custer was running back and forth between the Crows nest several times in an attempt to sight the Indians he would later attack. That's 8 hours of time lost for him to do something he had sent his Indians scouts and Varnum to do. True or just plain ridiculous? It seems most who theorize, write books and claim research on this subject don't care that this smacks of something Custer would not do. Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead, albeit 8 hours later and 12 to 16 miles short of dawdling back and forth between mtn and camp, mtn and camp and later dawdle over the divide at 12 noon.
Two men, who generally are not trusted to tell anything truthful stated a different time for crossing that divide. One, Major Reno, 2nd in command, said in his official report, wrote within days of the battles conclusion, that they crossed that divide at 8am. Benteen said in a personal letter, he thought would never see the light of day to someone else's eyes but his wifes, stated that he crossed that divide at about 8:30. And there were others no less important that stated the very same thing. YET, in spite of all of this evidence, who dawdled, who hesitated, who didn't believe his own scouts, causing a massive delay of 8 hours before crossing that same divide? None other than George Armstrong Custer. One must ask, what the hell were they doing for 8 crappy hours, twiddling their thumbs?
Lost Evidence:
Bones. Its as simple as that. For years the men who died on Reno's retreat were not given a decent and respectable burial, this is well documented by none other than T. Goldin in the Benteen-Goldin Letters. And in fact, when he went back to the battlefield in the 1920's they were still there, unburied. Yet no modern attempt has been made to locate these men, why? Perhaps because no one has thought to look - in the right place, where they did retreat, instead of the - wrong place, where they didn't?
Bones 2. Its as simple as that. Reno and Benteen moved from their 'first position' on the bluffs to a '2nd position' because of the stench from the dead horses and pack animals, I believe it was Gibbon who stated a number lost, and if I remember correctly he stated there were 40 some animals killed in a draw in that 'first position'. Find those dead animal bones and you find Reno-Benteen's 'first position' and no, yards don't cut it, not with that many dead animals, and they knew it when they said it. Simply put, these bones of some 40 dead animals are still there, and if you think someone cared enough to do something about it, you'd be wrong, because if they didn't care to bury most of those men who died on Reno's retreat, as Goldin stated, why bother with those dead animals? They are still there to this very day, but no where near........ Reno Hill.
LOST TIME:
Just one among many of this phenomenon can be observed in the early morning hours of June 25th 1876. F. Girard stated that they camped about 5 miles from the divide, and he also related that Gen'l Custer awoke him at 4am, and from here the story apparently becomes a little fuzzy. Because supposedly between 4am and noon Custer was running back and forth between the Crows nest several times in an attempt to sight the Indians he would later attack. That's 8 hours of time lost for him to do something he had sent his Indians scouts and Varnum to do. True or just plain ridiculous? It seems most who theorize, write books and claim research on this subject don't care that this smacks of something Custer would not do. Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead, albeit 8 hours later and 12 to 16 miles short of dawdling back and forth between mtn and camp, mtn and camp and later dawdle over the divide at 12 noon.
Two men, who generally are not trusted to tell anything truthful stated a different time for crossing that divide. One, Major Reno, 2nd in command, said in his official report, wrote within days of the battles conclusion, that they crossed that divide at 8am. Benteen said in a personal letter, he thought would never see the light of day to someone else's eyes but his wifes, stated that he crossed that divide at about 8:30. And there were others no less important that stated the very same thing. YET, in spite of all of this evidence, who dawdled, who hesitated, who didn't believe his own scouts, causing a massive delay of 8 hours before crossing that same divide? None other than George Armstrong Custer. One must ask, what the hell were they doing for 8 crappy hours, twiddling their thumbs?
Lost Evidence:
Bones. Its as simple as that. For years the men who died on Reno's retreat were not given a decent and respectable burial, this is well documented by none other than T. Goldin in the Benteen-Goldin Letters. And in fact, when he went back to the battlefield in the 1920's they were still there, unburied. Yet no modern attempt has been made to locate these men, why? Perhaps because no one has thought to look - in the right place, where they did retreat, instead of the - wrong place, where they didn't?
Bones 2. Its as simple as that. Reno and Benteen moved from their 'first position' on the bluffs to a '2nd position' because of the stench from the dead horses and pack animals, I believe it was Gibbon who stated a number lost, and if I remember correctly he stated there were 40 some animals killed in a draw in that 'first position'. Find those dead animal bones and you find Reno-Benteen's 'first position' and no, yards don't cut it, not with that many dead animals, and they knew it when they said it. Simply put, these bones of some 40 dead animals are still there, and if you think someone cared enough to do something about it, you'd be wrong, because if they didn't care to bury most of those men who died on Reno's retreat, as Goldin stated, why bother with those dead animals? They are still there to this very day, but no where near........ Reno Hill.