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Post by alfuso on Feb 15, 2008 23:50:59 GMT -6
Clair
from what I have read (hello, Eric) Mosby blamed Custer for attrocities against his men based on hearsay. His men told them that they had been told.
Now, really.
alfuso
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Post by conz on Feb 19, 2008 9:35:07 GMT -6
Clair, Not of Custer specifically, no. Of the Union troopers in general, sure. There's no question that some of the Confederate wagons rolled down the steep mountain side at Monterey Pass, and that teamsters and perhaps some wounded died as a result. The open question is whether those wagons rolled in the chaos, or whether they were helped. Eric I don't doubt that wagons may have fallen off the cliffs in their haste to get away from the Union cavalry coming up the road. I also don't doubt that the Union men tossed broken down wagons (or their tangled mule teams) off the edge to clear the road so they could get into the Confederate rear. But I don't think we can buy that Union men deliberately threw wounded Soldiers off the cliff in those wagons...they would have emptied them first...wouldn't have taken very long. But that does sound like one chaotic, "hell hath no fury"-like kind of night! Clair
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Post by conz on Feb 19, 2008 9:36:29 GMT -6
Clair from what I have read (hello, Eric) Mosby blamed Custer for attrocities against his men based on hearsay. His men told them that they had been told. Now, really. alfuso Yes, that's what I understood from Eric's, Gregg's, or Longacre's works, as well as my own Vermont CW history by Benedict. Clair
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