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Post by tbw on Apr 4, 2011 21:00:32 GMT -5
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Post by joewiggs on Apr 6, 2011 13:01:35 GMT -5
You're absolutely right! The story covered all the high lights of "Autie's" life in a reasonably unbiased manner. great job by the author!
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Post by joewiggs on Jul 19, 2011 19:47:04 GMT -5
I can think of no better explanation for the "enigma" often referred to as Custer's Last Stand!
"There is a genuine mystery here beneath the spurious one of what happened on the Little Big Horn battlefield--the mystery of white America's collective refusal to accept the obvious explanation for the defeat of the seventh Cavalry and the annihilation of Custer's five companies on that hot day in June of 1876. White Americas have clung to the supposed mystery of the Last Stand as a way of continuing their allegiance to the stubbornly rooted belief that whites could always outfight Indians."
Touched by fire...Louise Barnett
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Post by Cutter on Jul 19, 2011 21:24:10 GMT -5
Yup, if Reno had forced his advantage of surprise, shock, and intimadation when he could have, that thought might havebeen writtenfor another battle, and not this one. Damn ittybitty keyboard and screen. :-)
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Post by Cutter on Jul 19, 2011 22:17:05 GMT -5
To expand on my thought. If things had turned out FOR THE 7TH, this might have been written about Crook at the Rosebud.
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Post by cinnamon on Jul 21, 2011 6:20:08 GMT -5
dear joe, Custer had respect for indians and their abilities and skills and you find it not only through his letters but also through the pages of his book. Once he also stated they were the best cavalry of the world...Problem is that when you give an order and you're the Commander, you're supposed to be obeyed. If you order and you've got what you ask, and lost battle, it's your fault and all families crying dead soldiers can blame you. If you order, and half the regiment (in the person of their chiefs) disobeys, well the fault is not yours. We can put also the fact that never before with slight exceptions, the indians acted as they did at little big horn. So, Custer found himself like Captain Smith with Titanic: an iceberg was never seen so south, before april 1912.
The secret is just this.
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Post by joewiggs on Jul 21, 2011 17:08:24 GMT -5
I agree with you 100% Cinnamon! I've ofter espoused that Custer was not out on the Plains on his own "hook" but, that he was ordered there to locate the village. Having done so, he was to attack.
Of course, the rightness or the wrongness of his orders were not his to contemplate; he had to follow them. My quote from "Touched By Fire" touched upon (in my mind) the ridiculous position that Custer was wrong for attacking the village. To have not done so would have, undoubtedly, led to a Court Martial.
Like you, my friend, I grow weary of those who insist that the General was wrong to do as he did and, that he had no substantial plans. Not attacking because of the largeness of the village invalid. Using other options in his attack may have been.
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Post by Cutter on Jul 21, 2011 19:24:48 GMT -5
Geez, on the Kitty Bitty keyboard. Great posts by all. I 'd like to bring to attention to all here the Baker thesis. "Misguided by experience: A defense of Custer's actions at the Little big horn". For those who are interested, Google it. I have no clue how to cut and paste on this gaget. ;D
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Post by joewiggs on Jul 22, 2011 19:09:34 GMT -5
On the way! ;D
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Post by joewiggs on Jul 22, 2011 19:20:48 GMT -5
Cutter, thank you once again. You have a great knack for delivering good stuff! I'm going to print the site up. I,too, have no idea how to cut and paste, wish to hell I did.  |
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Post by tbw on Jul 22, 2011 19:50:40 GMT -5
Cutter, thank you once again. You have a great knack for delivering good stuff! I'm going to print the site up. I,too, have no idea how to cut and paste, wish to hell I did. Pretty simple really. Step 1 At the beginning of where you want to start the "cut" or "copy" - left click and HOLD that mouse key and drag the held cursor over the script you want to 'cut' or 'copy' all the way to the 'end of it. It will highlight that script. You can then release the left click button and it will remain highlighted. Step 2 Hold the cursor anywhere over the highlighted text and right click. From there you will have several choices of what to do, Cut , Copy, Paste, or Delete. Step 3 On that pop up menu select either 'cut' or 'copy'. There's a difference. You can't 'cut' someone else's work on the internet, but you can 'copy' it. Once you 'cut' something it disapears and it wont appear again until you 'paste it into your word processor or notepad, wordpad. It means what it says, 'cut'. Step 4 Simply go to your word processor, notepad or wordpad and after 'cut'ing or 'copy'ing - click on the area you want to paste it in and right click again and on the drop down menu select 'paste' and voila you've 'cut' and 'pasted'. Clear as mud I know, but practice makes perfect...  |
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Post by Cutter on Jul 22, 2011 22:35:12 GMT -5
I was talking about cut and paste on my handy dandy 'droid phone. I will be much amazed if that's possible on that thing. If it is, however, I do believe I would go blind trying to do it. ;D
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Post by Cutter on Jul 22, 2011 22:37:35 GMT -5
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Post by tbw on Jul 22, 2011 23:07:33 GMT -5
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Post by Cutter on Jul 23, 2011 0:04:42 GMT -5
"AFAIK, no, there isn't. It would be nice if there was a magnifying glass method like on the iPhone, because I thought that handled the copy-paste on touchscreen very well.
Unfortunately, for now, the copy-paste is limited to text boxes and apps that allow it. "
Soooo true. Thanks tho, good site. Am being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. ;D
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