Troopers with Custer: Historic Incidents of the Battle of the Little Big Horn

by E. A. Brininstool

Overview

No one survived in Custer's command, but other soldiers fighting at Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876 were doomed to remember the nightmarish scene for decades after. Their true and terrible stories are included here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803261013
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	02/01/1989
Pages:	343
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Earl Alonzo Brininstool was born in Warsaw, New York, in 1870. In 1895 he moved with his wife, Estelle, to Los Angeles, California, where he pursued a career in journalism. At different times, he worked as a reported, editorial writer, and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Record, Examiner, and Express. Brininstool wrote numerous light sonnets and Western poems in addition to his dozens of magazine articles and ten books devoted to the Indian wars, including Crazy Horse and Fighting Red Cloud’s Warriors. He died in 1957 at age eighty-six. Brian C. Pohanka, one of the nation’s leading authorities on the life of the common soldier of the Civil War, is a frequent consultant of film and the television producers on Civil War reenacting and living history. Formerly an assistant editor and researcher for the Time-Life Books Civil War series, he is the author of Distant Thunder: A Photographic Essay on the American Civil War and Civil War: An Aerial Portrait. Pohanka is also active in Custer and Little Bighorn studies, including archaeological work on the Little Bighorn Battlefield. He works as a freelance writer and consultant from his home in Alexandria, Virginia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Preface xi

Introduction xiii

Chapter 1 The Custer Fight in Brief 1

Chapter 2 A Trooper's Account of the Battle 35

Chapter 3 Capt. Benteen's Own Story of the Custer Fight 67

Chapter 4 With Col. Chas. A. Varnum at the Little Big Horn 93

Chapter 5 A Thrilling Escape - De Rudio and O'Neill 125

Chapter 6 Was Major Marcus A. Reno a Coward in the Custer Fight? 153

Chapter 7 The Story of Trumpeter Martin 183

Chapter 8 Sibley and the Sioux 193

Chapter 9 Theodore W. Goldin's Experience in the Custer Battle Water Detail 219

Chapter 10 Two Modest Heroes of the Custer Expedition 233

Chapter 11 Was There a Custer Survivor? 243

Chapter 12 A Great Newspaper "Scoop" 251

Chapter 13 How the Custer Battlefield was Discovered 255

Chapter 14 Medal of Honor Heroes in Custer's Last Fight 261

Chapter 15 The Story of "Comanche," Sole Survivor of the Custer Fight 269

Chapter 16 The Famous Brisbin Letter Sheds New Light on the Custer Mystery 275

Chapter 17 Were Custer's Remains Ever Positively Identified? 287

Chapter 18 Private George Berry's Experience in the Custer Campaign of 1876 291

Chapter 19 Charley Reynolds, Custer's Chief of Scouts 305

Chapter 20 The Kidder Massacre of 1867 in Custer's Regime 323

Chapter 21 Treatment of Red Men-Gen. John Gibbon's Opinion 333

Acknowledgements 341

Index 344