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On Little Bighorn Anniversary, Remember Custer\u2019s Crimes<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

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June 25th was the 150th anniversary of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. Col. George S. Custer and 267 US soldiers were massacred by thousands of outraged Indian warriors on the plains of eastern Montana.<\/p>\n

In 1969, as a twelve-year-old traveling to a Boy Scout Jamboree in Idaho, I visited the Custer Battlefield National Monument. I was riveted by the scene of the best-known showdown between the US Army and savages who were resisting the spread of civilization. I jotted a note from one of the plaques that the Seventh Cavalry\u2019s \u201cheroic defense made the nation yearn for details that no white man lived to tell.\u201d My view of the battle was heavily shaped by They Died with Their Boots On<\/em>, the 1941 Hollywood movie that featured Erroll Flynn as the heroic Custer who met a tragic fate.<\/p>\n

Decades later, I recognized that Custer was tied to a long series of atrocitie<\/strong>s. In 1864, as a Union cavalry commander fighting under Gen. Phil Sheridan, Custer sent his troops on burning sprees that utterly desolated the barns, farms, homes and towns in the Shenandoah Valley where I was raised a century lat<\/strong>er. Stephen Starr, author of Union Cavalry in the Civil War<\/em>, wrote, \u201cThe deliberate planned devastation<\/a> of the Shenandoah Valley has deservedly ranked as one of the grimmest episodes of a sufficiently grim war. Unlike the haphazard destruction caused by Sherman\u2019s bummers in Georgia, it was committed systematically, and by order.\u201d A newspaper correspondent embedded with the Union army reported, \u201cHundreds of nearly starving people<\/a> are going North, not half the inhabitants of the valley can subsist on it in its present condition.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Confederates fiercely resisted the Union\u2019s 100-mile arson spree, Custer responded by publicly hanging six captured Confederate soldiers in my old hometown, Front Royal, Virginia<\/a>, in September 186<\/strong>4. After Confederate Col. John S. Mosby hanged captured Union troops in retaliation, Custer relented from killing captured Confederates. But Mosby\u2019s men continued denouncing Custer as \u201cAttila the Hun<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two years after the Civil War ended, Custer was court-martialed<\/a> for ordering the summary execution of his own soldiers who had allegedly deserted when Custer was commanding a fight against Indians in Kansas. Custer was convicted on that charge and other abuses of his authority and suspended from the army for a year. Custer\u2019s brutality against his own soldiers helped explain why he was hated by many troops under his command.<\/p>\n

Custer was summoned back to active duty even before his suspension ended by Sheridan<\/a>, who was supreme commander in the US Army fight against the Plains Indians. Sheridan is best known for telling an Indian chief in 1869: \u201cThe only good Indian<\/a> is a dead Indian.\u201d\u00a0Sheridan wanted a commander like Custer who would not hesitate to scourge the enemy without mercy.<\/p>\n

On November 27, 1868, Custer launched a surprise dawn attack on a peaceful Indian village that was flying a white flag and was at peace with the US government. Custer\u2019s troops slaughtered more than a hundred Indians, including scores of women and children. No one was permitted to surrender and many Indians were killed as they sought to escape. Custer denied that his unprovoked attack on the village was a \u201cmassacre\u201d<\/a> because not every Indian was killed. Many women and children were instead taken as hostages after the battle.<\/p>\n

In 1875, President Ulysses S. Grant approved a plan<\/a> to trample US treaties with Indian tribes in order to seize the Black Hills territory after gold had been discovered there. Six years earlier, Grant publicly admitted: \u201cOur dealings with the Indians properly lay us open to charges of cruelty and swindling.\u201d But Custer was sent out as one of a series of military assaults that were the greatest swindle of them all. Grant\u2019s attacks on the Indians were not supported by the top Army commander, Gen. William Sherman, who complained about \u201cwhites looking for gold [who] kill Indians just as they would kill bears and pay no regard for treaties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Custer\u2019s arrogance and recklessness got all his troops killed<\/strong>. Assuming he could easily vanquish his Indian opponents, Custer divided his command shortly before the battle. He charged forward after doing little or no reconnaissance. Custer\u2019s soldiers had single shot rifles because the Army Quartermaster believed that repeating rifles wasted ammo. The Indians didn\u2019t have a quartermaster, so they had repeating rifles<\/a>, which wreaked havoc on the US troops. Custer rejected an offer to take Gatling guns<\/a> with him that could have helped balance the odds against thousands of opponents.<\/p>\n

In 1991, Congress voted to change the name from the Custer Battlefield National Monument to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. That signaled a belated recognition that the Indians had legitimate grievances that spurred their resistance to the US Army.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration, as part of its campaign to purportedly restore \u201ctruth and sanity to American history,\u201d is targeting \u201csignage describing broken promises to<\/a> Native American tribes\u201d at the Little Bighorn Battlefield<\/strong>, according to Montana television station KTVQ. Sitting Bull, one of the Indian commanders at Little Bighorn, said that white people had only kept one promise they ever made: \u201cThey promised to take<\/a> our land, and they took it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn is a reminder of the perils of official history that sweeps all government crimes and abuses under the rug.<\/strong> We can appreciate the heroism of both the US cavalrymen and the Indian warriors who died at Little Bighorn without putting George S. Custer on a pedestal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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