The Untold Story: Sergeant John Martin's Harrowing Tale of Custer's Last Stand

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Prepare to be captivated by the gripping account of Sergeant John Martin, the sole survivor of Custer's Last Stand. In this extraordinary video, delve into the harrowing experiences of Sergeant Martin, a retired United States Army veteran, as he shares his firsthand recollections of the infamous battle. From the fateful encounters with General Custer to the relentless onslaught of the Indian warriors, witness the courage and resilience that defined Sergeant Martin's survival. Join us as we unravel the untold story of one man's journey through the iconic clash of cultures on the American frontier. Don't miss this riveting tale of bravery, sacrifice, and the indomitable spirit of the human soul. Subscribe now and hit the notification bell to never miss an episode of our captivating historical series!"

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@robertspecht1911 7 месяцев назад

The timing of the Battle is wrong. Custer's dismisse on last stand hill was between 4pm to 5pm that day.

@31terikennedy 9 месяцев назад

Martin wasn't with Custer during the Last Stand.

@Iowahorse 8 месяцев назад

The whole vid was a farce.

@31terikennedy 8 месяцев назад

@@Iowahorse Most every thing about the LBH is. Slobhan Fallon does a pretty good job, though.

@gregghorner9107 5 месяцев назад

Yep, and this production takes his claim at face value.

@mottthehoople693 2 месяца назад

course he was.You wouldnt know if your arse was on fire

@31terikennedy 2 месяца назад

@@mottthehoople693 Hey Weep, if he were he would be dead like the rest of Custer's Command. Leave to a Brit to get it wrong. Duh!

@jjdjj5392 9 месяцев назад

The photos are cowboys not soldiers

@Iowahorse 8 месяцев назад

Oh there was worse than that

@mottthehoople693 2 месяца назад

so what are you a child? You think there was a camera on site?

@brianjohnshort7367 2 месяца назад

If you're telling a story. At least get the historically correct clothing right. See this problem 2 many times

@pimpompoom93726 6 месяцев назад

Interesting, a number of inaccuracies in this account. Martin had either forgotten or was taking literary license to embellish the story for readers. Or, if this was a summary assembled by a journalist, THEY made up some things. Martin's actual story would have been fascinating to hear in detail, I wish they had stuck to the facts.

@chardtomp 3 месяца назад

If I remember right, this interview was conducted when Martin was quite elderly, and his memory was noticeably failing.

@rogerross6583 2 месяца назад

They did the same thing Curly, the Indian scout" I don’t believe curly said much of what was claimed. ‘ he wrapped a Sioux around him and got away. Ya, right.sounds Ike something a white man who knows nothing about the Indians would say.

@rogerross6583 2 месяца назад

Wrapped a Sioux blanket around himself . ‘ the reporters would twist questions and twist the answers to get the stories they want.

@regularfolks8285 Месяц назад

Sgt. Martin was an Italian immigrant, who spoke poor English. In his original account; Sgt. Martin fails to say if he left Custer before or after Custer went down Cedar Coulee, which was lined with tall trees along one side. Sgt. Martin said, after leaving Custer, he heard a lot of gunfire. Sgt. Martin's horse was shot in the side during his trip across the top of the bluff. Sgt. Martin said, on the high bluff, he met Custer's younger brother, Boston Custer, who was not a soldier, coming from the opposite direction. Martin told Boston that Custer was just over the next ridge. Boston successfully joined Custer. This implies the Indians did not cut-off Custer from retreat at that moment; the thousands of Indians in ambush had not yet revealed themselves; and the gunfire at that moment was just skirmishing from a distance by a few Indians; likely to urge Custer in the desired direction; and Sgt. Martin left Custer from the bottom of Cedar Coulee or up on the ridge beyond it.__ __The Indians had been watching Custer all day. Custer traveled 1-mile above the river, high on the hillside. Even so, 7,000 warriors ambushed him. The large groups of dead soldiers mark the spots where the Indian ambush charges wiped them out in an instant. According to Frank Grouard in the book: "The Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard: Chief of Scouts". Grouard, a half-breed; lived with the Sioux for years, and knew the chiefs and hundreds of Indians who fought in the battle. The few soldiers who survived the ambush charges; shot their fellow soldiers upon request, and shot themselves, for their rightful, fear of horrible tortures. There were so many warriors, shoulder to shoulder, in the 1-mile square area, that a thousand boys and older men on horseback could not get into the battle.__ __The Indian side of the river was heavily wooded, 300-yards deep from the river. Many of the teepees were not visible in the trees. The Indians dragged tree-branches behind horses to stir-up a dust cloud. The Indians may have struck some of the teepees to the ground. The Indians were waiting.__ __When Reno approached the gap between the hills to his left, and the dense forest to his right; two thousand Indians were waiting in ambush; on horseback; half hidden in a canyon perpendicular to his left; and half hidden behind the trees behind the bend of the forest to his right. Had Reno not stopped; he would have been wiped-out too; instantly.__ __The Indians attacked General Crook's column a week earlier 15-miles away; for having scouts out looking for him and Custer.

@scotttilson4040 3 месяца назад

It’s good that guy survived the battle. But he was being used by the devil just as the government was. The Indians had every right to fight back for their survival. Most people in America at the time had nothing to do with the persecution of the Indians. It was the government that was the problem.that guy that survive was fighting for the wrong side.

@dukecraig2402 3 месяца назад

This video is full of all kinds of inaccuracies, the biggest one being that he "survived Custer's last stand", he did not because he wasn't there, no white person that was an eyewitness survived to tell about it, before Custer led his men down into the trap that wiped them out he sent Martin to carry a message to one of his Captains in charge of a troop, it was with them that Martin found himself in a fight he survived, as far as what happened to Custer he wasn't there to witness it.

@robertmalfy8552 2 месяца назад

The Indians weren't entitled to any land they built nothing that lasted never invented anything that benefited society if the Europeans didn't settle America they would still be in the stonage

@johngaither9263 8 месяцев назад

US cavalry did not fight in squares and archeological investigation early in the 21st century after fires had burned off the prairie grass proved it. Fired 45/70 casings and fallen soldier markers demonstrated the men were in skirmish lines and not in squares. Martin was either making up as he went along or was reliving a Napoleonic era battle.

@Iowahorse 8 месяцев назад

The whole vid was a train wreck.

@keithwalker1850 5 месяцев назад

❤c

@russellhogan2708 6 месяцев назад

It’s “Benteen”. And Reno had probably been drinking.

@tooter1able 5 месяцев назад

Martin did not see anything other than the attack at Medicine Tail Coulee. He delivered his message to Benteen with whom he stayed for the duration of the battle.

@glenvillephillips8293 9 месяцев назад

How can he tell how it happened when he was not there everyone knows custers whole command was killed only after the fact did the others saw the aftermath I do not like anything that is not fact if your going to tell history get it right.

@ltraf9701 5 месяцев назад

Thank You

@Waxer72ndVFW 6 месяцев назад

The AI-generated images suck

@user-ky4kb2yo6u 5 месяцев назад

Utterly inaccurate and should be taken down in the interest of historical fact. Extremely misleading. Shameful!

@steffski1946 7 дней назад

Custer expected his usual attack on old men, women and children but faced real warriors and lost big time

@arctodussimus6198 2 месяца назад

The part where Custer said it would be an easy battle, just women and children and dogs, seems accurate. The Cheyenne called Custer “woman killer”, as was his policy to attack non-combatants.

@Eadbhard Месяц назад

Arctodouchebagimus: Custer was confident, but he never said it would be "an easy battle". Because his regiment caught the village unaware, the village was quiet, and Custer might have surmised the warriors were all out hunting, but he did not entertain this belief for long. I never read anything about the Cheyenne naming Custer "Woman killer". Nope, never came upon it, and I've read an awful lot of books (unlike you). But, in 1855, the Sioux called General William S. Harney "Woman Killer" after his command massacred a band of Brules under Chief Little Thunder in the Nebraska territory. I think you have your history confused. It was not Custer's policy to kill non-combatants. At the Battle of Washita, Custer's orders were to kill or hang all warriors, and to capture all women and children. Prior to the battle, Custer specifically ordered his men not to kill or injure the women and children. Custer was no Colonel John Chivington. Four years before the Washita, Colonel Chivington's soldiers butchered the Cheyenne and Arapaho natives camped along Sand Creek in eastern Colorado. Before the attack, Chivington told his men to "Kill the women, kill the children too; nits make lice!" Seems to me, unread morons like you tend to confuse Chivington with Custer. Again, your memory for accurate history is garbled. Were Cheyenne women and children killed at the Washita? Yes. Unfortunately, non-combatants will inadvertently get killed when their villages are attacked; it's tragic, but it happens. Be that as it may, many scholars and historians attribute most of the non-combatant deaths at the Washita to Custer's Osage scouts. See, the Osage and Cheyenne were hereditary enemies; and when it came to killing enemies, Native warriors were seldom discriminate - women, children, the elderly, all fell beneath their tomahawks. You're an idiot.

@clydeosterhout1221 6 месяцев назад

Memories are a funny thing. They change over time, especially when exposed to additional information. This account is an interesting combination of what was personally observed and what he heard afterwards. It is similar in detail to the testimonies offered by Reno, Benteen, and the other officers at the 1879 inquiry. Like all of the accounts it offers valuable insights, but it has to be taken in the proper context, and evaluated as such. To be honest, I am surprised at how accurate much of the account was.

@bubbastoner5277 2 месяца назад

There are so many of these stories, I have read the minutes of the military investigation into the battle, there was more than one survivor.

@barn6079 6 месяцев назад

OMG, this is SO inaccurate, and made up! Obviously written by someone who has blended a bunch of recorded observations, along with various suppositions over the years...... I've read some statements from "John Martin": he knew he got really lucky that day! His English was very poor at the time.

@steve-mr8be 8 месяцев назад

What a pile of buffalo chips.

@alphacharlietango969 5 месяцев назад

Never relinquish your means of self-defense

@MadrasArsenal 6 месяцев назад

This AI crap is going to rewrite history.

@EVILDR235 5 месяцев назад

Why is the cowboy towards the end of this video holding a rifle with a scope on it ?

@pelonehedd7631 4 месяца назад

The dead buffalo pictures are not of North American Bison. The structure in the photo looks African or India Indian. It would be very easy to get photos that are actually of the subject matter.

@jayloomis9651 9 месяцев назад

Totally inaccurate McDougal guarded the pack train Ben 10 was ordered to do a left oblique to search for The Village Reno was told to cross the river and charge the village and Custer would support him with his whole battalion

@armyvet8279 9 месяцев назад

Were you there?? He was

@31terikennedy 9 месяцев назад

@@armyvet8279 So you know for a fact he's telling the truth?

@markfox6596 8 месяцев назад

You're right... He was not on last stand hill.. this is nowhere near accurate. He was the last trooper to see the 5 companies.. Reno, Benteen never got into the last fight on last stand hill.

@31terikennedy 8 месяцев назад

@@markfox6596 More nonsense is written about Custer.

@stuartjarman4930 8 месяцев назад

Captain McDougal commanded B company which was assigned as the regimental rearguard. Lt. Edward G. Mathey was the officer assigned to be in charge of the pack train and its permanent personnel. When asked at the court of inquiry about the "effective force" McDougall had "with the pack train that day," McDougall replied, "My company was composed of about 45 men, and there were about 80 men belonging to the pack train, and 5 or 6 civilian packers.

@axeltee1968 6 месяцев назад

This is most surely AI generated content! Many inacurrarcies, wrong pictures, typical AI voice, which i heard on some other channels. Sure signs for AI working... don't watch this!

@user-oy5mm3pb2g 3 дня назад

How George Custer became an army general is shocking. He lacks honour, a liar, a thief, a deceitful character whose tactics are to ambush women, children, and old folks and hold them hostage as human shield to fight.

@scotttilson4040 3 месяца назад

Even though custard still would’ve lost. If they would’ve kept their forces together, instead of splitting them up. And used more modern day repeating rifles. The Indians would’ve lost a vast majority of their soldiers. Custer and his men were in the wrong. What they did to the Indians was wrong.

@rogerross6583 2 месяца назад

The cavalry during the civil war just before Gettysburg were issued 7 shot carbines.after the war .July first , with the seven shot carbines held back the advance of the southern much longer than with the single shot carbines that were issued at the beginning of the war. General Custer also received these seven shot carbines and used them with great effect to hold their own. And drove Stuart from the field, stopping Stuart from hitting Mead’s force from a rear attack and changing the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg. But after the war. Better heads in Washington ( they thought they knew better) sole the better gun as war surplus. Custer was give the single shot carbine, that proved there were no better heads. Politics stink, it always did and it still does today.

@Robo67-24 2 месяца назад

It's easy to start at the end of battle or war and work your way backwards and see where they went wrong. Custer was following orders to get the Indians back on the reservations. Only today we see it as wrong. Hindsight is a good thing

@Gungho1a 6 месяцев назад

Wildebeest. They aren't even any form of buffalo, let alone bison, and definitely not in USA.

@f1david 2 месяца назад

Rear guard? Never heard this before. 🤷‍♂️

@flynnt1953 3 месяца назад

Poor presentation of an important historical event. Sounds like it was done by AI

@nickvandergraaf1053 5 месяцев назад

I hope I never make an AI video like this.

@rogerross6583 5 месяцев назад

Custer did not choose the messenger, Lt. Crook did

@zekesgirl100 5 месяцев назад

Cooke.

@user-xj1fu8bd8m 2 месяца назад

Are you sure, maybe Lt. Crook was used by Custer

@larry1824 6 месяцев назад

Giovanni Martini retired to Brooklyn

@johnh1508 6 месяцев назад

Wrong kind of buffalo. Pictures from Asia and the southwest? Not one pic of Montana.

@jjdjj5392 6 месяцев назад

Most soldiers did not wear cowboy hats...

@waynelayton8568 Месяц назад

His Last Name was Martinni. He wanted to be an American and assimilate as well did the other's that day. From all over Europe they came to fight and die for the United States. I dont think that same feeling for America is prevalent in the migration of today.😢

@mikewasniewski4048 5 месяцев назад

1:09 "the morning of the 26th" . I believe they were all dead on the 25th.

@cornbread9763 3 месяца назад

These photos??????

@rogerross6583 9 месяцев назад

Was that Custer ( bald guy with beard ?) in the room with his staff? Uh!

@joeleon5786 Месяц назад

I guess Custer got what he was asking for . Craziness

@CaptainChip501 3 месяца назад

I must say Benteen did hurry but not much fast. And did not really insist on heading to Custer.

@rogerross6583 5 месяцев назад

He was not shot in the side of his head!!!

@johnmyers4696 3 месяца назад

He was shot in the left temple to insure death. No one knows if it was from an Indian or a soldier but he was definitely shot in the head.

@BruceWSims 5 месяцев назад

AFAIK there was a single person to survive actual hostile fire in the battle, though the circumstances and the individual himself were heavily censored. The soldier reported that his horse had started into a gallop at the same time the he was seriously wounded causing the soldier to be carried away from the fight. There followed a tale of being a wounded soldier alone on the prairie with indians seeking after him. He found shelter and was tended by a kind of hermit whose hovel he came across. He later made his way into Wiscosin or Minnesota. I believe that the story was surpressed because it could not be proven that the soldier had not run from the battle in its earliest actions and deserted. Just sayin......

@danedwards8535 9 месяцев назад

Pictures of African buffalos

@LPORanger 2 месяца назад

The photos are ridiculous...dead wildebeest as bison, cowboys instead of cavalry, an Indian with a sword, etc.

@herrent 2 месяца назад

Why are they using photos of the Serengeti on a video about the American west

@alasdairgreig2705 4 месяца назад

Sounds like "John Martin" was at Waterloo. Cool story though.

@jimfindlay8089 9 месяцев назад

Got too suck too be the 2 messengers that were turned down to deliver the message.

@mikehunt-fx7sf 9 месяцев назад

lol !!

@stuartjarman4930 8 месяцев назад

Trumpeter Martin was a member of Benteen's Company H, so logical to send him with a message to his own captain

@mtr633 2 месяца назад

These images/artwork are all messed up. Cactus and mesas? Cowboys? Asian Buffalo? Civil war battle scene @ 4:32? Modern day soldiers on horseback wearing helmets @ 5:18? Poorly done

@madlenellul3430 8 месяцев назад

Totally inaccurate .. There are far better accounts .. Trumpeter Martini, he of the last message fame, left Custer’s column before Custer’s battle began. I suggest you read one of the comments posted in a RU-vid extract / presentation of Little Big Man. for a more ( possibly as we will never know ) accurate account. 👵🇦🇺🇺🇸

@jaynesager3049 8 месяцев назад

The website Astonisher has many primary source documents regarding the Little Big Horn, including Reno’s official report.

@Gene-kl1br 5 месяцев назад

Morning of the 26th ? No

@jamesgalloway7453 Месяц назад

"Horsesh!t!" - Commanche

@charleswalter2902 4 месяца назад

I have read volumes on the battle & the preliminaries leading up to it. This account is full of errors when compared to the accounts given by Philbrick & others. Giuseppe Martini did not witness the battle, neither did any from Reno's group all the did was hear intense gunfire. I personally feel that "Wildwestfaces" offers some of the best info on lots of wild west stuff.

@Steve-qt9ce 9 месяцев назад

Thats gotta be the worst RU-vid video I've ever seen☠️

@mikehunt-fx7sf 9 месяцев назад

lol !! I agree!

@Frank-pi2gz 5 месяцев назад

I THOUGHT CUSTER WAS THE ONLY SOLDIER LEFT STANDING, AND WAS LAST SEEN SWINGING HIS RIFLE, " OLD BETSY " AT THE ON COMING INDIANS.😢

@LeeBartoletti 5 месяцев назад

Giovanni Martini, although some say Martino.

@stevenvanover8773 5 месяцев назад

Discovery was 25th. Not 26th

@daviddougan6961 8 месяцев назад

See below.

@Defender78 7 месяцев назад

why is this narrated in a British voice, oh yeah - for the "distinguished orator effect", um LBH was an American event

@user-xj1fu8bd8m 2 месяца назад

Yes, sometimes death can be minutes away without concern. The grace gospel is so very important for salvation 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and also read Ephesians 2:8-9. Do not think it takes a battle for death to come, maybe only a vaccine.

@joe6796 5 месяцев назад

George Armstrong Custer

@davidwinter6148 2 месяца назад

This is a professional video relaying true facts?

@tbcoachniblick1208 2 месяца назад

Not the SOLE survivor....sent back with message was not with Custer massacre.

@JohnnyTofil 2 месяца назад

He was just doing as order.Its 2024 and people are worse .

@billknapp8750 8 месяцев назад

Bentine?

@hiddenfromhistory100 3 месяца назад

A pretty self serving account by Martini

@jameshorton7496 6 месяцев назад

It's NOT Bentine! It's BENTEEN!

@mikebell719 9 месяцев назад

There are no buffalo in the United States, there are only Bison.

@mikehunt-fx7sf 9 месяцев назад

And there are no giraffes in Africa.

@gonnafish 8 месяцев назад

Tell that to Native Americans. I’ll call them buffalo too. Common names can be whatever you want. Genus and species names are what’s important in identification.

@sheepsfoot2 6 месяцев назад

Regardless what the proper name is , those bloody bovines 2:01 look nothing like anything that walked > north America or anywhere else for that matter 😂> American Bison NO , south African Cape Buffalo NO , Asian water Buffalo NO !

@1339LARS Месяц назад

LJ!!!!!!

@58landman 5 месяцев назад

Nice story but not all there. And what's with the illustrations related to this event? Thumbs down.

@mikerichard6962 3 месяца назад

This video is a bunch of Cow Cookies !

@mssmith3604 6 месяцев назад

That's spelled "Benteen."

@seanohara85 6 месяцев назад

Much respect I have for native American people. This video is not good, it feels like a pizza hut/bbc collab.

@kevinsharkey1336 5 месяцев назад

Didn't answer the question.

@mohicanmachine99 7 месяцев назад

Think we perfer pack of wolf's/warriors/ braves/ savages!! Hahaha

@dennisnull4613 6 месяцев назад

Bullshit, a real joke. couldn't watch past the "water Buffalo" picture. Martini could barely speak English in 1876.

@user-zb3dt1sg4b 5 дней назад

pitiful CGI images.

@andrewdraper3394 9 месяцев назад

Damn this was a good video!

@mikehunt-fx7sf 9 месяцев назад

It was horrible.

@Iowahorse 8 месяцев назад

Not even a bit of it

@johnwarren1445 8 месяцев назад

Obviously you watched a different video than this load of rubbish

@waynelayton8568 2 месяца назад

This story is not whay happened. Cmon man. Sone English speaking dude!

@johnzajac9849 6 месяцев назад

This is horse hockey.

@kevinhurley7021 6 месяцев назад

testimony very inaccurate

@zutrue 6 месяцев назад

The only...white man??? There were far more indians that would have known more and seen more and done at the Greasy Grass Battle than this...white man. Far better to get the facts, if truth is what you are truly seeking, no matter the source.

@ElectroKinetic1977 6 месяцев назад

Custer shot himself in the head first and the shot in the chest came second from an Indian as they were witnessed shooting towards the ground because the dead grey horses were protecting Custers chest as he took cover and fired making only his head visible, he had the privilege of getting the most cover, his men surrounded him and the two dead horses as the gravestones suggest, when Custer saw that he had a few men left he shot himself in the head.....

@markcrampton5873 6 месяцев назад

Did you see him shoot himself ? Custer was right handed & was shot in the left temple. Does that seem reasonable to you ? Also many people who saw Custer 's body said that there were no powder burns .

@user-wj1xp8uo8e 5 месяцев назад

He was killed at the river his men took him to this supposed last stand hill Custer was dead his men disorganized and leaderless

@rogerross6583 5 месяцев назад

Custer’s Fall is a very good book. I read it years ago, 1st edition, since then I have read three or four times. I don’t believe that was Custer who was sho at the river. That does sound good, maybe even reasonable but I believe some other officer may have been dressed similarly, it was him that was shot. I believe another book doses cover this piece, who or what book? Hey, I’m 78, I read too much. I’ll remember that someday. Not right now.

@user-wj1xp8uo8e 5 месяцев назад

The bones were scattered all over they don't now who is in what grave take the skull they claim is Custer and DNA it

@stevenvanover8773 5 месяцев назад

Rubbish. Wounds were on his left side. Custer was right handed

@davidstafford1071 5 дней назад

Absolute bolloks

@guyfawkes8384 6 месяцев назад

crap ai generated images

@CaryChristopher-fi8lv 6 месяцев назад

I do wish the creator(s) of the video hadn't utilized so many stock photos of cowboys and Native Americans that seemingly had nothing to do with the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The narrator's voice was interesting to hear but the historical inaccuracies provided a very sour note on the whole video. I won't be subscribing if this video is characteristic of the work by History Cases. Sorry.

@peterpayne6778 4 месяца назад

There is no account of the nearby Indian village where all women and children were slaughtered prior to the battle,

@Berniewahlbrinck Месяц назад

Terrible AI.

@celticnorthman3615 6 месяцев назад

All crap!!!

@davereed417 Месяц назад

Custer another Yankee who got what he desired

@richardwilhelm1751 8 месяцев назад

Shameful 6:08

@user-tj4ie5xs9x 2 месяца назад

What B.S

@HistoryCases 2 месяца назад

"B.C." (Before Christ)

@raymonddonahue7282 2 месяца назад

Not authentic

@hibabe5038 2 месяца назад

Waste of time don't bother knows nothing about history

@johnh1508 6 месяцев назад

Boo.

@tbcoachniblick1208 2 месяца назад

Stupid Graphics....👎👎

@DennisFreitas-bn7nh 4 месяца назад

Boring! Only for americans!

@kylewood8327 Месяц назад

Probably Woke generated!

@Eadbhard 2 месяца назад

"A veteran of numerous Indian battles"? Martini fought the Sioux at the Little Bighorn, and that's it. He fought in the Spanish-American War, but the only battle where he ever fought Indians was the Little Bighorn. I stopped watching this bullshit video after 0:13.