Post by chas on May 30, 2006 5:34:07 GMT -6
An Indian-fighter's perspective of the Civil War
BY JAMES ACKER, The Civil War Courier, May 2006, page 15,22
History remembers Marcus A. Reno for his alleged failings at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, Commanding one of three columns of the 7th U.S. Cavalry on that fateful day, Reno behaved erratically under fire, permitting the Sioux and Cheyenne to back him onto a hill above the Little Bighorn
while, four miles away, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's column was slaughtered to a man. A decade earlier, Reno had garnered an equally unimpressive record during the Civil War. Not until the conflict's final months did he achieve regimental command, as colonel of the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Presaging his later troubles, on March 21, 1865, a 1,000 man expedition under Reno was routed by fewer than half that number of Confederate irregulars under Colonel John S. Mosby near Middleburg, Virginia. Reno's account of his service with the Army of the Potomac appeared in the April 29, 1886, issue of the National Tribune and has been lightly edited in James Ackers article.
BY JAMES ACKER, The Civil War Courier, May 2006, page 15,22
History remembers Marcus A. Reno for his alleged failings at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, Commanding one of three columns of the 7th U.S. Cavalry on that fateful day, Reno behaved erratically under fire, permitting the Sioux and Cheyenne to back him onto a hill above the Little Bighorn
while, four miles away, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's column was slaughtered to a man. A decade earlier, Reno had garnered an equally unimpressive record during the Civil War. Not until the conflict's final months did he achieve regimental command, as colonel of the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Presaging his later troubles, on March 21, 1865, a 1,000 man expedition under Reno was routed by fewer than half that number of Confederate irregulars under Colonel John S. Mosby near Middleburg, Virginia. Reno's account of his service with the Army of the Potomac appeared in the April 29, 1886, issue of the National Tribune and has been lightly edited in James Ackers article.