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The Real Custer

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by James S Robbins


  Gibson, Francis Marion, 285, 397, 400

  Gibson, Mel, xiii

  Glazier, Willard, 57, 97, 408

  Godfrey, Edward S., 301, 305, 332, 380–82, 396, 401, 412

  Goes Ahead, 380, 388

  gold fever, 337, 342–44

  Goodwin, Archibald C., 144

  Goose, 341

  Goose Creek, 374

  Gordon, John B., 96, 101, 154, 196, 203–7

  Grant, Frederick Dent, 324, 326–27, 339, 342

  Grant, Orvil, 357

  Grant, Ulysses S., 125–30, 135, 139–40, 142, 145–48, 160, 170–71, 180–82, 187, 198, 200–10, 212–13, 215–16, 224, 230, 236, 241, 243, 245, 249–50, 271, 284, 297–98, 302, 307, 311, 334, 347, 353–67, 376, 409–11

  Greasy Grass Creek, 391

  Great Sioux Reservation, 277, 338

  Greeley, Horace, 358

  Green, Wharton J., 126

  Greene, Benjamin, 121

  Greene, Israel, 30

  Greene, Jacob, 107, 133, 215

  Gregg, David McMurtrie, 70–71, 80–83, 85–88, 92, 125, 131, 133, 188, 243

  Gregg, John Irvin, 81, 243

  Grierson, Benjamin, 243

  Griffin, Charles, 203–4

  Guardian, London, 146

  Guardian, South Carolina, 34

  Gurley, G. L., 407

  H

  “Hail Columbia,” 189

  Hains, Peter S., 299

  Hairy Moccasin, 380, 388

  Hall, Henry, 72–73

  Halleck, Henry W. (“Old Brains”), 73, 126, 176

  Hamilton, Alexander, 266

  Hamilton Examiner, 342

  Hamilton, James (“Little Jim”), 35

  Hamilton, Louis McLane, 265–67, 277, 413

  Hamlin, Hannibal, 162

  Hancock, Winfield Scott, 54, 223, 259, 357, 361

  Hanley, Richard P., 398

  Hanson, M. P., 230

  Hare, Luther R., 384

  Hare, William H., 347

  Harhaus, Otto, 92

  Harney, William S., 277

  Harpers Ferry, 30

  Harrington, Henry M., 389, 393

  Harris, Samuel, 68, 81, 85, 91

  Harry, 72–73

  Hatch, Edward, 243

  Hatcher’s Run, 187–88, 190–91

  Havens, Benjamin “Benny,” xv, 23–24, 25

  Hazen, William B., 42–43, 279, 282–84, 291

  Hedrick, John M., 358

  Helena Herald, 408

  Hendricks, Thomas A., 361

  Henry, “Fighting Guy,” 374

  Herendon, George, 397

  Heth, Henry “Harry,” 78, 213

  Hill, A. P., 100

  Hodgson, Benjamin “Benny,” 387

  Holland, Alexander, 9

  Holland, Mary, 9

  Holzenger, John, 330–31

  Hood, John Bell, 223

  Hooker, Joseph “Fighting Joe,” 54, 68–71, 73, 115–16, 127

  Howard, Jacob M., 248

  Howard, Oliver O., 82

  Howe, Caroline Dana, 137

  Howe, William O., 73

  Huger, Benjamin, 200–1

  Huger, Frank, 200–1, 413

  Humphrey, Annette (“Nettie”), 94–95, 103–7, 215

  Humphreys, Charles A., 143, 189–90, 197, 204, 207

  Hunter, David (“Black Dave”), 131, 134

  Hunter, R. W., 206

  Hunton, Charles, 100

  Hunton, Eppa, 201

  Hyatt, Pulaski F., 219

  I

  Indian Bureau, 308, 339, 362, 409

  Indian Commission, 269

  Indiana Democrat, 366

  Ingalls, Rufus, 213, 365

  J

  Jack Rucker (horse), 234–35

  Jackson, Henry, 264

  Jackson, Thomas J., 49

  Jeff Davis Legion, 132

  Jenney, Walter P., 346

  Johnson, Andrew, 162, 215, 224, 228, 241, 244–53, 357

  Johnson, Bushrod, 188, 196

  Johnson, Charles, 264, 268, 276

  Johnson, R. W., 22

  Johnston, Joseph E., 61, 182, 187, 195

  Jomini, Antoine-Henri, 127

  Jones, Anna Elinor “Emma” (“Major Jones”), 113

  Josephine (steamer), 333, 371

  Juarez, Benito, 241

  K

  Kanipe, Daniel, 388, 395

  Kansas City Times, 371

  Kansas-Nebraska Act, 30

  Kearny, Philip, 51

  Keim, DeBenneville Randolph, 284

  Kellogg, Mark, 369, 373, 401, 406

  Kelly, John Herbert, 37, 74

  Kelly’s Ford, 70, 160

  Keogh, Myles, 385, 389, 393–94, 405

  Kershaw, Joseph B., 155, 199–202

  Kidd, James H., 77, 82, 85–86, 89, 99, 101, 104, 119, 127, 149

  Kidder, Lyman, 266–67

  Kilpatrick, Alice, 112–13

  Kilpatrick, Judson, 28, 31, 72–74, 79–80, 82, 87, 92–93, 95, 97, 100–3, 111–16, 118–23, 129, 180

  Kiowa tribe, 277–78, 282, 289–90, 292–93, 337, 339

  Kirkpatrick, Maria Ward, 2

  Kosciuszko, Thaddeus, 22

  Kosciuszko’s Garden, 22

  Ku Klux Klan, 360

  Kuster, Arnold, 1

  L

  LaCosta, Nicholas, 234

  Lancaster, L. L., 227–28

  Landern, J. W., 119–20

  Lane, John, 32

  Larnard, Charles H., 18

  Larned, Charles W., 304–5, 326–27, 331

  Last Stand Hill, 389, 394, 401, 403

  Lauffer, Samuel B., 360

  Laurel Brigade, 148, 151

  Lawrence, Albert Gallatin, 348

  Lea, John W. “Gimlet,” 62–63, 91, 213

  Leavenworth Weekly Times,

  Lee, Fitzhugh, 28, 84, 96, 101, 103, 122, 143–44, 188, 324

  Lee, Robert E., 28, 60, 115, 118, 151, 172, 185, 190, 195, 200, 205, 208, 230

  Lee, W. H. F. “Rooney,” 188, 192–93, 213

  Leighton, Alvin C., 358

  Leland, Charles Godfrey, 418

  Lewis, Charles Bertrand, 237

  Libby Prison, 114, 135

  Lincoln, Abraham, 51, 140, 166

  death of, 216, 236

  election of, 33–34

  inauguration of, 38

  Libbie Custer and, 136

  politics and, 67, 161–64, 245–47

  war and, 39, 49, 65, 73, 113–14, 125, 160, 201

  Little Beaver, 284

  Little Big Man, xiii

  Little Big Man, 349

  Little Big Mouth, 283

  Little Bighorn, xi–xii, 361, 375–76, 379–80, 394–95, 399, 406, 408–9, 413, 416

  Little Bighorn Valley, 377, 380–81

  Little Raven, 293

  Little Rock, 287–88, 303

  Little Wound, 318

  Lively, 102

  Locke Bluff, 330

  Locke, David Ross, 253

  Lomax, Lunsford L., 97, 148–49, 182

  London Illustrated News, 61

  Lone Wolf, 290, 293

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 401

  Longstreet, James (“Pete”), 53–54, 61, 70, 88, 92, 154, 203–8, 213

  Lounsberry, Clement, 373, 406

  Lovell, Tom, 207

  Low Dog, 350–51, 391, 393, 402

  Lowe, Thaddeus S. C., 52

  Ludlow, William, 42, 108, 339, 341, 367, 414

  Lyman, Theodore, 78, 94, 112, 213

  Lyons, Frederick, 159

  M

  Maginnis, Martin, 256

  Mahone, William “Little Billy,” 200

  Malone, John M., 258

  Malvern Hill, 60

  Manhattan Club, 360

  Marcy, Randolph B., 313

  Marsh, E. G., 197, 205

  Marsh, Grant, 406

  Marshall, S. L. A., 364, 375

  Martin, John, 387, 389, 395

  Marvin, Charles E., 174–75

  Mary Powell (steamer),
413

  McBlain, John F., 355, 377, 380, 398–400

  McCrea, Tully, 15, 21, 34

  McDonald, James, 415

  McDougall, Thomas M., 383, 388, 395

  McDowell, Irvin, 48–49

  McGowan, Samuel, 205, 247

  McIntosh, Donald “Tosh,” 399, 413

  McIntosh, John B., 81–84

  McIrwin, Samuel, 92

  McLean House, 208–10, 213

  McLean, Lula, 209

  McLean, Wilmer, 207

  McLellan, George (“Little Mac”), xiv, 51, 55–57, 59–61, 64, 65, 67–68, 126, 162–63, 246, 251, 357, 411

  McLelland, John, 4

  McMillan, James W., 157

  McQueen, A. G., 229, 231–32, 234

  Meade, George, 73–74, 78, 81, 88, 92, 95, 98, 99, 115, 122, 128, 213

  Meder, Henry, 286, 288

  Medicine Lodge River, 277

  Medicine Lodge Treaty, 278–79, 281–82

  Medicine Woman Later, 287

  Meigs, John R., 168–69

  Melville, Herman, 166

  Meotzi (“Monahsetah,” “Spring Grass”), 303

  Merington, Marguerite, 94

  Merrill, Lewis, 360

  Merrill, William E., 42

  Merritt, H. A. D., 120–21

  Merritt, Wesley, 24, 74, 80, 87, 89, 101, 120–21, 129–30, 132, 140–41, 143–46, 148, 155, 160–61, 176, 181, 187–89, 202, 216, 224, 243, 245

  Mexican War, 28, 201, 224

  Meyer, Henry C., 72–73, 79

  Michie, Peter, 16

  Michigan Brigade, 81–82, 88, 90–91, 116, 123, 130–31, 133, 140

  Middlesex Journal, 179

  Miles, Nelson, 394–95

  Military Division of the Missouri, 258–59, 298

  Military Division of the Southwest, 223

  Miller, Marie, 107

  Miller, William E., 85–86

  Mitchell, J. F. B., 120

  Montjoy, R. P., 174

  Moore, Hal, xiii

  Morgan, William A., 84–85, 185

  Mosby, John Singleton, 102, 165–76, 262, 409

  Mosby’s Confederacy, 166, 175, 262

  Moylan, Myles, 304, 325, 329

  Mulligan, Richard, xiii

  Mulvaney, John, 417

  Munford, Thomas T., 72–73, 135, 151

  Munson, John W., 165, 170, 172

  Murphy, Thomas, 269

  My Life on the Plains, 294, 303, 364

  N

  Nailer, Alice, 112

  Nasby, Petroleum V., 253

  Nast, Thomas, 251, 409,

  National Union party, 247, 253

  New Orleans Lafayette Artillery, 53

  New York Citizen, 416

  New York Herald, 90, 117–18, 153, 156, 183, 189, 284, 294, 345, 358, 367, 373, 410

  New York Times, 90, 103, 115, 212, 233, 257, 290–91, 293, 354, 363, 409–10

  New York Tribune, 141, 236, 266, 416

  New York World, 118, 339, 365, 410

  Newall, Frederick C., 188, 195–96

  Newton, Henry, 346

  Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, xiii

  Noble, Conway, 66, 107

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 323, 325, 334, 343, 406

  O

  Oakes, James, 243

  Oakland Tribune, 346

  Old Bear, 355

  O’Neill, Thomas, 384, 386

  Orange and Alexandria Railroad, 52, 116

  Ord, Edward O. C., 209

  Osage tribe, 284–85, 289, 306

  Overland Campaign, 127, 130, 135

  P

  Palmer, Frank, 413

  Palmer, Innis N., 315

  Palmito Ranch, 223

  Park, Robert E., 147

  Parker, Francis Henry, 29, 38–40

  Parker, James P., 47–48

  Partisan Ranger Act of 1862, 165

  Patton, George S., 143–44

  Paul, Edward A., 90, 103, 167–68, 209

  Pawnee Killer, 264–65, 267, 318

  Peebles, R. R., 231–32

  Pelham, John, 24, 160

  Pendleton, George H., 162, 204

  Peninsula Campaign, 52, 61

  Pennington, Alexander C. M., 62, 79, 81–83, 86, 101–2, 133, 149–50, 157, 188–89, 192, 208, 244

  Perkins, George, 153, 179

  Peyton, George Q., 159

  Phelps, William F., 325–26

  Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, 146, 259, 278

  Philippe, Louis, 55

  Pickett, George, 81, 188–93, 196–97, 201, 213

  Pickett’s Charge, 82, 88, 208

  Pleasonton, Alfred, xiv, 68–71, 73–74, 78, 80, 82, 89, 94, 96–98, 103, 114–15, 126, 167, 244, 258

  Plumley, Basil, xiii

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 24

  Pollard, James, 121

  Pope, John, 63, 257–58

  Porter, David, 214

  Porter, Fitz John, 53

  Porter, H. R., 382, 386, 398, 402, 406

  Porter, Horace, 207, 209–10, 218

  Porter, James E., 399

  postwar frontier force, 256

  Potter, Edward, 415

  Pound, George Edward, xii

  Powell, William H., 172–73, 175, 181

  Prospect Station, 213

  R

  Rain-in-the-Face, 330–31, 334, 350, 401–2, 409–10

  Ramseur, Nellie, 160

  Ramseur, Stephen Dodson, 24, 74, 154–55, 159–60

  Rawles, Jacob B., 31, 33

  Read, Thomas Buchanan, 156

  Reagan, Ronald, xiii

  Reconstruction, 246, 356

  Red Cloud, 258, 277, 340, 347–48

  Red Cloud Agency, 348, 351

  Red Cloud’s War, 338

  Red Horse, 386, 391, 398

  Red Leaf, 318

  Red Star, 361, 378

  Read, R. G., 413

  Reed, Armstrong “Autie,” 370, 401, 413

  Reed, Emma, 304

  Reed, Lydia, 4

  Reno, Marcus, 366, 383, 412

  Republican party, 30, 245–46, 358

  Revolutionary War, 21–22, 243, 414

  Reynolds, Charley, 329–30, 334, 399

  Reynolds, John F., 38, 42

  Reynolds, Joseph J., 355

  Rhodes (prisoner), 172

  Rice, E. M., 358

  Richmond Daily Dispatch, 162

  Richmond, Rebecca, 94, 108, 276, 314

  Richmond Sentinel, 102

  Richmond Whig, 117

  Ricketts, James B., 155

  Rienzi, 156

  Rio Grande, 224, 233, 344

  Roanoke, 70–72, 85

  Robinson, Martin, 120

  Rockbridge Artillery, 206

  Rodes, Robert E., 144

  Roe, Charles F., 400

  Roe’s Hotel, 21–22

  Roman Nose, 260–61, 280

  Romero, Raphael, 284, 303

  Rosser, Betty, 184–85

  Rosser, Sarah, 184–85

  Rosser, Thomas Lafayette “Tex,” 24, 39–40, 53, 72, 74, 91, 101, 128, 132, 148–52, 153, 157, 180–84, 188, 191, 324–27, 332, 412, 415

  Rousseau, Lovell Harrison, 249

  Rowan, William H., 409

  Rowland, Thomas, 17, 34–36, 40

  Rummel Farm, 82–83, 87

  Running Antelope, 342, 346–47

  S

  Sailor’s Creek, 197, 201–2, 290

  Sand Creek Massacre, 284, 291

  Sanger, L. H., 339

  Santa Fe Trail, xiii

  Satanta, 277–78, 290, 293

  Sawyer, Edward B., 96–97

  Schaff, Morris, 12, 16, 31–33, 36, 39, 47, 159

  Schofield, John M., 279, 414

  Scott, Winfield, 48, 223

  scouring of the valley, 145–48

  sectionalism, 30, 245, 253

  Seddon, James, 120

  Seip, Robert C., 358

  Seven Days’ Battles, 60

  Seward, William Henry, 151, 241

  Shawnee tribe, 4
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br />   She Bear, 384

  Shenandoah Valley, xiv, 71, 139–52, 182, 280

  Sheridan, Michael V., 315, 321

  Sheridan, Philip (“Phil”), xv, 126–29, 130–35, 137, 140–52, 153–62, 165, 167–70, 174–76, 180–85, 187–92, 195, 201–10, 213–14, 216–18, 223–24, 226, 230, 233, 242, 271, 275–76, 278, 280–84, 286–87, 289–95, 298, 302, 311–12, 315, 318, 320–22, 324, 337–39, 343, 353–54, 364–66, 375, 377, 408, 411, 413

  Sherman, John, 363

  Sherman, William T., 90, 122, 147, 162, 182–83, 185, 195, 215–17, 241, 243, 259, 264–67, 277, 279–84, 297–99, 302, 339, 343, 361, 363–66, 373, 408, 411

  Sigel, Franz, 139

  Sighting the Enemy, 415

  Sims, Robert, 205–6, 210

  Sioux campaign, 361, 363–64, 366, 370–72, 409–10

  Sioux tribe, 258–59, 263, 266–67, 277, 300, 314, 328–30, 333, 337–41, 344–51, 369, 375, 380, 385–87, 391–94, 398, 402–3, 408, 417

  Sitting Bull, xiv, 309, 329–33, 341, 348–50, 353–54, 374, 380, 391, 398, 403, 409–10

  Sitting Bull (“the good”), 347

  Skiff’s Creek, 53

  slavery, 29–30, 245–46

  Smith, Andrew Jackson, 243, 255

  Smith, Edward W., 406

  Smith, Kirby, 223–24

  Smith, Nettie, 414

  Smith, William F. “Baldy,” 52–53, 55

  Soldier’s Journal, 117

  Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Union (SSU), 248, 250–51

  Some Corrections of “My Life on the Plains,” 291

  Southern Intelligencer, 235

  Southside Railroad, 187, 202

  Spanish American War, 244

  Spotted Tail, 318, 342, 347–49

  St. Paul Pioneer Press and Tribune, 412

  Stahel, Julius, 113

  Standing Rock Reservation, 334

  Stanley, David S., 126, 326–28, 331–33

  Stanton, Edwin M., 57, 114, 136, 161, 236, 242, 244, 250, 253, 257

  Staunton Spectator, 119, 121

  Stebbins, Alfred, 4

  Stiles, Robert, 196, 199

  Stillman, 230

  Stone Forehead, 294, 380

  Stone, William M., 236

  Stoneman, George, 51, 53, 68–69

  Stoneman’s Raid, 115

  Stover, George W., 230, 232

  Strong, George C., 41

  Strother, D. H., xvii, 64

  Stuart, James E. B., 30, 37, 70–71, 78–79, 81–83, 86–88, 96–97, 100–3, 116–17, 123, 128–30

  Stuart, Jeb, 96–97, 100–1, 103, 128, 130

  Sturgis, James G., 399

  Sturgis, Samuel D., 298–99, 305, 411–12

  Sumer, Charles, 30, 54

  Sutherland’s Station, 187, 190

  Sweeney, James, 159

  “Swing around the Circle,” 239–53

  Swinton, William, 212

  T

  Taft, Alonzo, 363–65

  Taft, Horatio Nelson, 215, 217

  Taft, William Howard, 363

  Taylor, Muggins, 407

  Taylor, William, 395

  Tecumseh, 4

  Ten Bears, 277

  Tenney, Luman H., 203–4, 207

  Tenting on the Plains, 267, 415

  Tenure of Office Act, 253

 

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