Edgerly quote(?)

[libelous]

Osprey's in it's "Little Big Horn 1876" Campaign series on page #65
quotes General Edgerly as saying:

" We could see the bodies of Custer's men and horses with swarms of Indians".

Since I read the Reno COI testimony before the Osprey book, I believed the "...dust, smoke and Indians shooting at ground" testimony. And am a bit shocked by what appears to be perjury.

The quote has no citation of date or source, does anyone recognize it?

[noggy]

May 2, 2023 11:03:20 GMT -6 libelous said:

Osprey's in it's "Little Big Horn 1876" Campaign series on page #65
quotes General Edgerly as saying:

" We could see the bodies of Custer's men and horses with swarms of Indians".

Since I read the Reno COI testimony before the Osprey book, I believed the "...dust, smoke and Indians shooting at ground" testimony. And am a bit shocked by what appears to be perjury.

The quote has no citation of date or source, does anyone recognize it?

Hello and welcome!

No, I can't remember that quote. I tried google and the quote did not show up. I usually like Osprey's books; while not very indepth, they tend to be written by genuine historians. This does however not seem familiar to me. But, by definition, the men from L and C men around Calhoun (which he probably saw) were "GACs men" since they were among the five companies he took. 

Does Osprey have a referance to the quote? A year or anything?

All the best,
Noggy

[johnson1941]

When I went out with the troop, on the afternoon of the 25th, I could see quite a number of Indians galloping back and forth on the battlefield, where we afterwards found the bodies, and firing at objects on the ground, but we could not see what the objects were.

This is as close as I found.

www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/wm_edgerly_little_big_horn.html



And a Google search "Edgerly Little bighorn We could see the bodies of Custer's men and horses" found this...dont know what it is exactly...seems a Military Affairs volume. Echoes From Custer's Last Fight: Accounts by an Officer Survivor Never before Published

www.jstor.org/stable/i307907

THE Battle of the Little Big Horn, or

JSTOR

www.jstor.org › stable

by EC Bailly · 1953 · Cited by 6 — I saw no. Indians on the bluff during our advance until near the lowest point, where we could see the bodies of Custer's men and horses with swarms of

[libelous]

Thanks folks,

I picked up the Osprey mainly for maps, they're pretty good with them. My eyes bugged out when I read the quote. No attributions, no footnotes, de nada.

That part of the Jstor quote certainly looks like what Osprey's writer used. I'm going to look for a copy the magazine it appears to be from.

My thanks to you both for taking the time to give me a hand.