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| Crazy Horse |
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| Gall |
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| Sitting Bull |
On this day in 1876, Lieutenant Colonel (Brevet Major General) and glory boy George Armstrong Custer rode out of Fort Abraham Lincoln, Montana Territory, with elements of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, accompanied by the regimental band piping the spirited
Gerryowen, favorite march of the 7th Cavalry.
Part of a larger force,
Custer was ordered to return about 800 supposedly rather pesky Lakota Sioux
to the reservation. Living on reservations was never the idea of
a people who had once freely roamed the entire country and they were not in
favor of the concept of reservations.
Within a month, unaware of
the hostiles true number, which, reinforced by the Cheyenne and the Arapaho was well into the thousands,
Custer, who was out flanked, out smarted and out generaled by Gall, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, led his men into the surprise of
their short lives.
THE SHADOW RIDES WITH FREEDOM
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