The lasting image I have when I think of Custer's Last Stand is the comic portrayal of Custer by Richard Mulligan in the greatly underrated movie Little Big Man.
My favorite historical oddity about the Battle of Little Big is the fact that the Battle also marks the death of George Custer's younger brother Thomas Custer. What's odd about that? Thomas Custer was one of the few two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winners in US history. Nobody remembers Thomas Custer though.
Actually it was Boston Custer who was awarded the MoH twice and died at Little Big Horn. Thomas was awarded the MoH once and also died at LBH. So it was three Custer brothers who died there.
ReplyDeleteThomas Custer also received 2 MoH but I did not know anything about Boston Custer who as you point out also was awarded 2 MoH
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Custer
Wow - thank you! And congrats on your move to Florida
Of course by taking my info from Wikipedia I could be wrong
ReplyDelete5 members of the family died that day.
ReplyDeleteFive? How many Custer's were there?
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