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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Battle of the Little Big Horn by Brian Palmer Last stand of General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Harper's on The Custer Massacre, 5 August 1876 Little Big Horn , New York Times , 1876 Report on the Battle of Little Big Horn, Major M.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Originally, soldiers were told to extract jammed cartridges with their knives, but after the Little Big Horn battle in 1876, the shell was redesigned and thereafter the carbine proved quite satisfactory in combat.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Map of the battle between General Custer and several tribes encamped on the Little Big Horn River in Montana Territory, 1876.
These are the same Indians who mercilessly shot down Custer and 300 of the Seventh Cavalry, and it is safe to say the Sioux will receive no quarter should an opportunity occur to wreak out vengeance for the blood taken at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
The Sioux Indians were the same tribe who fought General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, wiping out his entire command of over 265 men.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Five Scots buried their bagpipes before going out to die with General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Also from the Leighlinbridge area was the daring Captain Myles Keogh , second in command to General George Custer , who died at the battle of little Big Horn in 1876.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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In 1873, three years before the Battle at the Little Big Horn, Custer and 1,500 troops were at Pompeys Pillar as protection for 375 civilian surveyors who were working on a trans-continental railroad survey through the Yellowstone Valley.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Many were war horses and had been in the battle of Little Big Horn for they carried the scars from the rifles of General Custers troops.
Hunt, Frazier and Robert, I Fought with Custer, the Story of Sergeant Windolph, Last Survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.
He died with George Armstrong Custer's troops who were wiped out to a man by a massed force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana.
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