Custer Died for His Sins...

...and don't let anyone tell you different! Here is a excerpt from an editorial that was printed in the Chicago Tribune on 7. July 1876,  a mere13 days after the Battle of the Greasy Grass:

 "Custer ... was a brave,  brilliant soldier,  handsome and dashing,  but he was reckless, hasty and impulsive,  preferring to make a dare-devil rush and take risks rather than to move slower and with more certainty, and it was his own mad-cap haste, rashness and love of fame that cost the service the loss of many brave officers and gallant men.  No account seems to have been taken of the numbers or leadership of the Sioux,...  no account was taken of the fact that General Gibbon was coming to the Little Big Horn with re-enforcements,  only a day's march behind, although General [sic] Custer was aware of it.  He preferred to make a reckless dash and take the consequences,  in the hope of making a personal victory and adding to the glory of another charge,  rather than wait for the sufficiently-powerful force to make the fight successful and share the glory with others.   He took the risk, and he lost." 33).

The first Native killed was a fourteen year old boy,  Wicohan,  who ran to warn the village of the Cavalry's approach. Six Lakota women and four infants were also killed in Custer's assualt upon their village. These un-named women and infants were the next victims of Custer's undisiplined and uncoordinated attack.  Before any warriors were confronted and engaged by the Seventh Calvary and their scouts,  11 defenseless women and children were killed.  There are many still  who defend Colonel Custer's actions at the Greasy Grass. They seldom mention this crucial part of the story.  We should remember...

Long Live the Lakota Nation!
Hoka Hey!
--ryan