Custer & the Captives: Battle of the Washita Part II. Lives of the Little Bighorn Series 

Why thank you!! 🙏😊

@@SiobhanFallon7 I just recently discovered your channel. Needless to say that your knowledge and presentation is second to none. I am amazed that you as a woman has the deep interest in the topic at hand. Most females could care less about the subject. Again, many, many thanks to you for this presentation!

@@SuperDave-vj9en Thank you, Dave! So good of you to take the time to comment! 🙏

I agree! And also helps us see his plan for the Little Bighorn...

I will!! I keep meaning to try to do shorter videos but I talk too much 🤣 Thank you for the kind words 🙏

Thank you! 🙏

Thank YOU so much!! 🙏 It's great to get such generous feedback from you, Scottie.

Thanks so much!!

Thank you!! Trying to finish one on young Lt Benny Hodgson now....

So good of you! And thanks for being patient. I have so many ideas-- just not always the time to do them. I appreciate you hanging in there 🤗

Of course I will

I am really not happy about your ONE SIDED accounts of custer, he was a murdering good for nothing.

@@sandidavis820 I wish you would provide something more than baseless accusations, Sandi? Perhaps you could start following Native American author and historia Michael Badhand if you so readily and baseless dismiss my presentations. Or even Wikipedia. Or really any book. You are not backing up any of your claims 🤷🏼‍♀️

@@sandidavis820 I am willing to learn and/ or read anything you provide that proves the things you say. But history does not support your claims.

Really? Sure, I'd love to do that. Great idea. Thank you. I appreciate suggestions and that would be a really fun one to put together! 📚🙌✨️

I agree! And the NA camp circles at LBHA were not spread as far apart as they were at the Washita, so the Cheyenne and Lakota warriors needed less time to unite and strike back at the US soldiers. Whereas the soldier columns were spread much farther apart at the LBH, so the soldiers had trouble uniting themselves.

@@SiobhanFallon7 Agreed especially once Compannies C, L and I collapsed

I agree with all of the above. but I do not believe the story about Ben teen.

Thank you!! My pronunciation is not always the best 😉🤷🏼‍♀️

@@SiobhanFallon7 You are doing fine.

@dks13827 thank you 😊 🙏

Much appreciated!!

YES!

Oh Hugo, you have a keen and kind eye!! It's been awhile since I put a video up, thanks for being there for me as always!

Ha ha your Benteen comments 🤣🤣🤣 'first leaker to the press' 🤣

Thanks, Walter!

I tend to lean toward yes. But everything is circumstantial evidence-- there isn't any hard evidence linking the little boy to Custer 🤷🏼‍♀️ Peter Harrison's Monasetah is a great book if you are interested in the entire history

@@SiobhanFallon7 I’ve been a Custer person since a child. Reading all I could find . Honestly I get torn on his ability as a commander or a person. Putting his decisions in context to the times is difficult sometimes . I understand why he split his forces but still think it was short sighted decision plus I don’t think Reno was ready for his assignment and Benteen seems to be just this side of compliant . Really enjoy your explanation and analysis

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Thank you!!

It'd be really interesting to learn if Cheyenne warriors gave testimony or comments connecting the two fights right after the LBH battle. Almost all witnesses say they did not realize they were fighting Long Hair/ Custer.

Yes, I have read the Windolph book! It is very good. Benteen despised Custer for a lot of things. Benteen says of Elliott at the Washita in the Benteen Goldin Letters, p 252: "Elliott, like myself, was "pirating" on his own hook; allowed himself to be surrounded and died like a man." The Benteen Goldin Letters are a great resource if you haven't read it already, and traces many of teh issues Benteen had with Custer. And yes, karma certainly is a b*tch-- Benteen, who had accused Custer of abandoning Elliott at the Washita, would be accused of abandoning Custer at the Little Bighorn for the rest of his days ;)

@Siobhan Fallon , You've obviously done your homework. Libby Custer fomented that opinion publicly. It never got any traction. I'm old. But back in back in the 90s, I watched a PBS documentary that had an interview with Charles Windolphs granddaughter. " My grandfather said that Custer was the meanest son of a bitch that ever sat in a saddle he treated us like dogs". Son of the MORNING Star by Evan Connell, and Crazy Horse and Custer ( I can't remember the author) are also full of information with great bibliographies. I personally believe Custer was an arrogant narcissistic ass. His luck ran out on the bluffs along the Greasy Grass. I believe he was mortally wounded early on as he desended the bluffs to attack the village. His troopers saw him slump over in the saddle and panicked. The attack went sideways, and the command retreated up the bluffs. I believe Wooden Leg stated that if they had continued down the bluff into the village, they would overrun it. They chose to retreat, and it belongs to the ages now. "Custer was a fool he rode to his own death" Gall ,Cheyene. What do you think? Great video👍

Very hateful aren't you?

Please keep watching my Washita videos, especially the Chief Black Kettle bio and the one about Clara Blinn!

I will. You do a fantastic job here...🙏...Custer was always a controverse person for me...i am from Germany...interested in the Old West since i am 12...now I am 60... I dont know your Chanel very long...i think about 8 weeks or so...i always enjoy watching your Videos and all the little details that your talking about 🙏

@@UdoMekelburg thank you! I appreciate you taking a look and would love to hear more of your insights. Nice to "meet" you here!

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Nice to "meet" you here 🙏 You are a fantastic historian...text you at your Cara Blinn Video soon

I'd be very curious to read the eyewitness testimony you base this on, Mr. Dugan? Thanks for taking the time to comment!

Lots of research here if you want to take a look at the events leading up to the Battle of the Washita. Thanks again! ru-vid.com/group/PLHfg6vohewsz_5UUQNdUfwYvWa5jP_3Jn&si=0wqWYopvtwbEDBlw

Your research is flawed. A massacre is not a battle. I suppose you think Wounded Knee was a battle also?

@josephdugan4955 happy to read your research and I am always willing to learn more! Please share your reading list. Thanks!

FYI The Cheyenne woman that Custer raped at the washita massacre went on to have her child and both witnessed his demise at the LBH a very fitting end for a man without honor..