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Post by dave on Mar 28, 2015 16:50:43 GMT -6
WO I have no doubt that Benteen was GAC's designated "brawler" who could be counted on at all times. Shelby Foote described General Grant as having “Four O'clock in the Morning Courage” and I believe Benteen was cut from the same cloth. Regards Dave
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Post by tubman13 on Mar 28, 2015 16:54:42 GMT -6
Beth, You win the prize, Cobb got rich investing in Coca Cola, Captain Benteen's son Fred invested in coke as well. Ty however was 12 when Benteen Sr. died. So in theory he could have been a Little League coach for a year or two. He was not
Regards, Tom
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Post by welshofficer on Mar 28, 2015 16:57:40 GMT -6
WO I have no doubt that Benteen was GAC's designated "brawler" who could be counted on at all times. Shelby Foote described General Grant as having “Four O'clock in the Morning Courage” and I believe Benteen was cut from the same cloth. Regards Dave Dave,
It's more than that. By all accounts, H company was one of the better companies and, as he showed on 25-27 June, Benteen knew how to command and/or de facto command a battalion and/or wing. That was important, with Tilford and Merrill absent. Weir's D company was also amongst the better companies, and Fred tells me that the order of seniority was disturbed because Benteen wanted D company in his battalion, but Weir's instincts were just to feed yet another lone company to the hostiles and he had drunk himself to death by the end of the year.
WO
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Post by dave on Mar 29, 2015 14:49:46 GMT -6
Dave, do you have any examples of where Custer worked hard to obtain the "approval and admiration" from Benteen?
Letter of Frederick Benteen to Theodore Goldin November 10, 1891
"...I always went to him in "propria persona”...Custer liked me for it, and I always surmised what I afterwards learned, de facto, that he wanted me badly as a friend, but I could not be, tho' I never fought him covertly.”
Source
The Benteen-Goldin Letters on Custer and His Last Battle edited by John M. Carroll
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