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Post by Diane Merkel on Jan 21, 2011 12:04:41 GMT -6
I haven't had a chance to read this yet, but Lorna Thackeray -- my favorite reporter -- gives a nice summary at billingsgazette.com/news/local/article_2a191f05-2a88-595c-aa94-b7f43672a58d.html. Most accounts of the Little Bighorn battle credit Lt. James Bradley, who was in charge of the Montana column's scouts with discovering the fate of the 7th. But [Rickard] Ross contends that [2nd US Cavalry member Frederick Erastus] Server was either the first to come upon the horror of the battle scene or made the discovery at about the same time Bradley did in a different part of the battlefield.
Two years before his death, Server was interviewed by The Billings Gazette on the 33rd anniversary of the battle.
"There have been so many versions of the exact happenings at the time of the massacre that I hesitate about telling what I know of the affair," he told a reporter. "For the exact truth about the masere (sic) is not as highly tinted with glory as it might be."
He was no fan of Lt. Col. George Custer and laid the blame at his door. I have a feeling Server's account will generate some interesting discussions. I wish Mike Nunnally could give us his opinion.
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