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Post by Tony on Jul 2, 2005 17:18:31 GMT -6
absolution----I have studied this battle for many years--it was Lt. Edgerly who asserted in his interview to Camp (Camp pg.56), that made Camp write "When Edgerly looked over toward Custer field, he saw indians shooting as though at objects on the ground, and one part of a hill on Custer field was black with Indians and SQUAWS standing there" Here, the account describes not a battle in progress, but a battle's end!!! Oh, the statement was made referring to Weir Hill and the so called advance. Believe me, I didn't make this up!
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Post by absolution on Jul 2, 2005 23:11:29 GMT -6
Interesting I have always stood by the hour theory, if that's what one wishes to call it. The facts seem pretty solid to me. And Edgerly's statment may just nail the lid on the coffin. That is unless someone wants to say he had an agenda? Personally I don't believe that anyone could honestly say something like that without having seen something, and I am not referring to this without the use of fieldglasses, ie. the unaided eye.
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Post by custermania on Aug 30, 2021 20:41:16 GMT -6
Wait so Custer rushed to LBH so he could be first to push them towards Gibbons? One that doesn’t fit who GAC is. No way he was looking for any help but Benteen. Brevets are hard to come by Terry cancelled Gibbon's scout because the Montana Column was too late to be at Custer's side on June 26th. The evidence are from lieutnant Bradley and Terry's aide who wrote the orders for Custer. The testimonies are without a doubt telling that Custer expected Gibbon to be in the valley, not far, on June 26th. It didn't take this information from Chaventone's book, but from Bradley testimony and Terry's aide testimony. But there is no doubt that terry wanted Custer to attack at once if he found the Indians first and thought that they would scattered. Bradely's testimony and other testimonies of officers of 1876 told this : if Custer located the Indians, he would attack on June 26th with the support of Gibbon and Terry. If he knew that the Indians would fly away, or if he found them in an other location that in the Little Big Horn valley (like Tullock's creek), he had to attack them at once. Remember that Godfrey said that Custer let his scouts going on the tops of the hills to see the entire valley of Tullocks Creek. Custer obeyed to Terry, but there were not steps of Indians in Tullocks Creek. Then he turn to the valley of the Little Big Horn. Custer could have wanted to contact Gibbon after he knew the treason of Reno and Benteen. We know that some soldiers were killed a lot of miles from Custer Battlefield, like Harrington and another soldier of company C. Perhaps these people were carrying oral orders or written orders that have never been found. But it is an theory. You cannot deny it, except if you have the power to talk with Custer in heaven.
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