From: bronco357@webtv.net   
      
            I WITHDRAW FROM THE   
            BATTLEFIELD!   
   Not beaten but out gunned.   
      
   I have enjoyed our discussion and the fact we were able to share   
   thoughts. I am a   
   novice but fairly well read. It appears you on the other hand are deeper   
   into it than I am. Although I have been to the battlefield   
   6 times and walked some of it to look over the terrain to relate it to   
   the books I read, you on the other hand seem to have better insight than   
   I.   
   As to the burial of Custer, I do stand corrected. You were right. What   
   ever book I got my information from was incorrect.   
   My reading was done before the days of the computer, ( as you can tell   
   by my webtv system) but I did a Wikipedia search  on him and it confirmed what you said. However it did say that he   
   had two bullet holes one in the left temple & one just above the heart.   
   He was reinterred in the West Point Cemetery Oct 10,1877.   
   It did list three military blunders however,   
   First he refused the support offered by   
   Gen Terry on the 21st of an additional   
   battalion. Second he left behind a battery of Gatling guns, knowing he   
   was facing superior numbers. Finally on the day of the battle, he   
   divided his command in the face of superior numbers.   
      
   I still hold to some of my thoughts on the battle and will always feel   
   that Custer was   
   shot at the crossing at Medicine Tail Coulee. Then taken by his men to   
   Last Stand Hill, where he died. Whether by his own hand or by someone   
   else.   
   Further feel that Reno with Benteens help saved the rest of the command.   
   There was NO conspiracy between the two against Custer.   
   Whatever else will be debated as long as people read and reflect on that   
   day in history.         "OLD"   Wild Bill   
      
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