Just beyond the river, in the dusty flat to the right of the cottonwoods, Major Reno's command started dying. He had been ordered there to guard against Lt. Col. Custer's supreme fear that the raggedy-ass Indians would escape to the Big Horn Mountains.
Reno and other survivors of the Indian counter attack west of the Little Big Horn retreated up this ravine and occupied a shallow depression, the position of the camera in this photo. Later that day he was reinforced by Major Benteen who, himself, had been ordered on a vainglorious escape-prevention mission.
Custer Battlefield September 2009
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Custer's approach to the Lakota, et al, had the same built in flaw that doomed the Confederate generals in the Late Unpleasantness. They believed that one Southerner could whip ten Yankess with just a cornstalk. Turns out, one Southerner could only whip eight Yankees. Custer applied the same logic to Indian fighting. Bad math. JAGSC
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