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INTRODUCTION

 

 

INDEX
 The whole historical case on Custer's Last Stand is on this frame, below. Here are the others subjects of Custeriana:
Custer in the Civil War
General Custer's life, legacy

 

Battle of the Washita, 140th anniversary 
Custeriana: art, books, reenactments, collectibles
Members of the Seventh Cavalry
 Battlefield/archaeology
NO genocide on the Plains
The American West
Best books in Custeriana
Links

 

Custer's Last Stand in six minutes (video introduction for new Custer buffs)
 

 

 

CUSTER'S LAST STAND

THE LAST STAND - INDIAN WITNESSES

 

CUSTER'S LAST STAND

THE COVER-UP

 
VIDEO: Sons of the West: graves on the battlefield 
 
A Stand for Victory: why Custer's last fight mattered for final victory
 
Field of carnage: the sight of the bodies on Custer battlefied
   
 VIDEO :
Tribute to the 268 fallen soldiers of Little Bighorn 

Benteen celebrated Little Bighorn: schocking quotes by the captain 
 
Crook ignored the battle: the "Wyoming column" heard the gunfire of Custer's Last Stand, saw the smoke but never moved 
   
LBH specialist and US Marine Robert Nightengale: the story of a cover-up + VIDEO
 
 
Lieutenant Gibson's personal letter : how a letter that unmasked the betrayal was changed

 
 
Major Reno's lies at the Reno Court of Inquiry 

 
False exhibit (I) at the Reno Court of Inquiry : the petition of the enlisted soldiers
 
 
False exhibit (II) at the Reno Court of Inquiry: the maps of the battle (with pictures of the maps)
 
 
The Reno Court of Inquiry: incomplete 

VIDEO: 
The Reno Court of Inquiry unmasked
 
 
The "Little Bighorn mystery" : a fairy tale 
 
Reno Court of Inquiry chairman to US general-in-chief: the court was biased, Custer was betrayed + VIDEO
 
 
US general-in-chief Nelson A. Miles in 1898: Custer took the right decisions, was betrayed.  + VIDEO

 
Account by the Reno Court of Inquiry chairman: it was a whitewash 
 
Little Bighorn veteran Fred Gerard: during the Inquiry, the army and Major Reno's defense were corrupting or threatening witnesses
 
Perjuries in Court: Captain Carter, friend of the officers of ther 7th cavalry, explains that the witnesses of the court lied to protect the honor of the regiment 
  
 
Historian Bruce Liddic: perjuries by Major Reno and Captain Benteen
 
 
A newspaper from North Carolina, 1879: "Custer was left to his fate because of Benteen and Reno"
 
Letter by Reno Court of Inquiry chairman to Miss Custer: Custer never disobeyed orders, Major Reno failed his mission 
 
The Reno whitewash : Custer's personal secretary Roberts attacked Reno in an essay 
  
Libbie's stand: letter by Custer's widow to condemn Major Reno 
 
Captain Carter, 4th cavalry and Little Bighorn specialist: "Benteen's and Reno's behavior will be recorded as a crime"
 
How the army and Major Reno's defense changed the size of the Indian village on the official map given to the Court of Inquiry
  
 
Historian Wettengel on the cover-up 
 
Lieut. Oscar Long's report (1878) uncovered the betrayal

Silence in court: the recorder of the inquiry on Little Bighorn could not ask serious questions to the witnesses