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Post by joewiggs on Nov 19, 2012 9:54:37 GMT -5
Reno explicitly stated that he at no time received any orders from Custer other than to lead out to the village. That he was never alone with Custer in the march.
"just then Reno, with his three companies, came around the bluff in sight;then Custer told his adjutant, William W.J. Cooke, to signal Reno to cross the creek and come to him. Reno came at once and rode for several hundred yards with Custer, as we [were] moving at a gait of a slow gallop;then Reno left with his three companies at a more rapid gait."
Knipe to Camp)
On the Little Big Horn with Walter Camp
Page 7
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Post by joewiggs on Nov 19, 2012 13:15:18 GMT -5
From Reno's own pen many years later:
"I remember as I rode back to my command, the last remark I ever made to him was -'Let us keep together.' In his jaunty way he lift up his broad brim hat as much to say, 'I hear you'.'
But alas! He did not heed me."
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Post by tbw on Nov 22, 2012 22:12:10 GMT -5
Reno explicitly stated that he at no time received any orders from Custer other than to lead out to the village. That he was never alone with Custer in the march. "just then Reno, with his three companies, came around the bluff in sight;then Custer told his adjutant, William W.J. Cooke, to signal Reno to cross the creek and come to him. Reno came at once and rode for several hundred yards with Custer, as we [were] moving at a gait of a slow gallop;then Reno left with his three companies at a more rapid gait." Knipe to Camp) On the Little Big Horn with Walter Camp Page 7 This, if true, would really change the dynamic. I'm wondering though, the area this was in. It seems like he was saying, and please correct me if I'm wrong here, but he seemed to imply that Reno and his three companies were around a bluff and out of sight when he said they "came around the bluff in sight." Now I've been all up and down that valley and there's no place like that off to the left of that trail where Reno and his companies were supposedly at that they couldn't be seen. Add to the fact that Reno and those who rode with him stated that they were never further away from Custer and his men than about 250 yards. Now I'm not saying Knipe is right or wrong here, that's not the purpose of my question. But assuming he's right, where was he and his men at that a "bluff" would impede seeing him? The only bluffs I'm vaguely aware of in that region would have been the white chalky "bluffs" was he really behind them or somewhere else? |
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