"That Time When Custer Stole a Horse"

[Diane Merkel]

An excerpt from the November issue of Smithsonian magazine:

For 150 years, it has been public knowledge that Custer owned Don Juan, but not how he acquired it. His many biographers have written that Union troops seized it during a wartime campaign, as they confiscated every horse in Rebel territory; that was Custer’s own explanation. Until now, the truth has remained hidden in the open, told in correspondence and affidavits archived in the library of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and the National Archives that have aroused little curiosity among those biographers. But the truth raises important questions about the man and his place in American history.

Article: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-custer-stole-thoroughbred-180956961/?no-ist

[tubman13]

Thanks, Diane, I enjoyed.

[Beth]

A very interesting read. Thanks for sharing it.

[BrianS]

Thank you Diane.