Today, June 25, in 1875, they fit the battle of Little Big Horn, resuting in the death of one of the biggest little men of the 19th century.
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer made his last stand against the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Sitting Bull didn’t do a lot of sitting that day, though, and Crazy Horse didn’t prove too crazy, for Custer was shuffled off this mortal coil in a battle that lasted about two hours.
Vain and ambitious in life, Custer found the fame he was looking for in death.
So at least he got something out of the battle.
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Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Today, June 25, in 1875, they fit the battle of Little Big Horn, resuting in the death of one of the biggest little men of the 19th century.
Fame? I wonder.
Little bit o’ trivia – When Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Custer was the one who ceremonially received the Confederate flag. He was a “rising star” apparently.
Wasn’t it 1876?
It was indeed 1876. The news got to the Eastern seaboard just in time to put a pall on the Centennial celebration that Fourth of July.
Yeah, and once Lee and Grant had signed, Custer made off with the furniture as a souvenir. No kidding.
Yes, it was 1876. That’s a typo I meant to fix before the post went up but guess I forgot.
If I remember correctly (which despite all that US history I took I probably don’t ’cause I didn’t like US history at the time) he was a rising star for a reason. He was considered an able commander. His loss at Little Big Horn is, I believe, placed more on his overconfidence and bigotry than his lack of tactical skill.