Gary Owen, My Darling
2002; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/45226838
ISSN1554-9631
Autores ResumoGeorge Armstrong Custer and five troops of the Seventh Cavalry met a combined force of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors near the Little Bighorn River in Eastern Montana.They were surrounded and killed "to a man," history books solemnly intone.The bad news reached Philadelphia, which was wrapped in bunting for the nation's hundredth birthday.It was an unbelievable defeat.Grim tidings awaited Custer's parents in Monroe, Michigan, for with Custer were two brothers, a brother-in-law and a nephew.Custer's youngest brother, Boston, was afraid that he would miss out on the action.At the last minute, he hurried from the pack train to be with his brother.For two nights the bodies lay in the moonlight, a pale and bloated "Tableau on Last Stand Hill" Custer, shot in the head and the chest, sat between two soldiers.Nearby was his brother Tom, whose skull was smashed, and his adjutant, W. W. Cooke, one side of his long whiskers scalped.Boston was a little farther down the hill.To be sure, his last moments rivaled any of his dreams.Close to the river, in a deep ravine, lay the men who tried to escape near the end of the battle.Here the soldiers were quickly surrounded and butchered.They clawed their way up the steep sides, but to no avail.When it was over, the bodies
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