The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer (56 page)

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Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer.
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The Dull Knife Fight.
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Sitting Bull.
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Index

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Adams, Mary

alcoholism

aliases

Allison, William B.

Allison Commission

American Horse (chief)

ammunition supply

Apache

Arapaho

Arikara

Astor, John Jacob

Bacon, Daniel

Bacon, Elizabeth (“Libbie”).
See
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon

Baker, Gerard

Baliran, Augustus

Ball, John H

Ballard, S. H.

Barnitz, Albert

Barrows, Samuel

Bates, Charles

Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Killdeer Mountain

Battle of Summit Springs

Battle of the Little Bighorn.
See also
defeat, explanations for; Little Bighorn Campaign; myths and mysteries; Reno Court of Inquiry

ammunition supply at

archaeological evidence at

burial detail at

Custer, G. A., as scapegoat for

Custer, G. A., decision to separate into three battalions

Custer, G. A., final moments

Custer, G. A., June 1876 orders from Terry

Custer, G. A., orders to Reno

hand-to-hand combat during

Indian losses at

Indian weaponry at

mass grave of Seventh Cavalry troopers

missing-in-action

Reno aborting orders at

Reno's panicked retreat at

revisionist interpretation of

Terry-Gibbons Column to identify bodies at

Battle of the Washita

Custer, Elizabeth, book about

Beaver Dam Station

Belknap, William W.

Bell, Emeline (wife)

Bell, James M.

Benham, D. W.

Bennett, C. W.

Bennett, James Gordon, Jr.

Benteen, Frederick William

background

Custer, G. A., orders to

as Custer, G. A., critic

dawdling at Little Bighorn battle

death of

Enlisted Men's Petition for

–Goldin correspondence

letter to wife implicating Custer, G. A.

neglect of orders at Little Bighorn

ordered to hurry by Custer, G. A.

pinned down at Custer Hill

Reno and

at sight of Custer, G. A., body

survival tactics of

suspended for misconduct

The Benteen-Goldin Letters on Custer and His Last Battle
(Carroll)

Big Foot (chief)

Bighead, Kate

Bighorn Mountains

Bingham, John A.

Black Buffalo Woman

Black Hills