Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2021 16:10:43 GMT
BLUF: Recommended.
A shortcoming is there is no bibliography, but there are 24 footnotes which reference 12 works of which I have read 4 (one of which is Benteen's Scout to the Left.) The books is available at www.amazon.com/dp/0962148822?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details at prices from 16.97 - 21.11.
Written in 1992, the subtitle is "Correcting a Century of Misconceived History" and Darling makes a good attempt at doing so. There is only 1 map which covers the general battle area from Rosebud with graphics indicating key fetures (such as The Crows Nest, Lone Teepee, Reno Hill, Weir Point, and Custer Hill) and mostly shows rivers. A route would have provided some needed focus for the first time reader of a Custer study.
He headlines the myth quite early as "A century of tradition would be that the dashing Custer and his heroic cavalrymen were executing a clever, tactical pincer-maneuver against an Indian village, only to suffer defeat from overwhelming numbers of hostile savages."
The basic premise is Custer's superiors and historians have give him too much credit in the amount of actual tactical and terrain intelligence he knew and/or had available AND that his superiors and historians conflate their understanding on the terrain and situation with what they have learned or inferred since the battle. Careful examination of events and journals should lead one to the conclusion that no one in the 7th understood enemy or the terrain and it not until reaching the vicinity of Weir Point did Custer even begin to understand the enormity of his task. To be fair, his seniors had even less knowledge than he. Custer and the US Army did not understand the Sioux way of war which was to avoid combat except on favorable terms and protection of non-combatants and interpreted this as cowardice rather than tactical caution or humility. (Perhaps Mao was a Sioux in another life.)
Jerome Green's 1973 "Evidence" is not in the bibliography/footnotes, nor are any of Fox's and Scott's books. I believe these two books support's each other in their conclusion, even though they were written far apart.
Only Darling's "A Sad and Terrible Blunder" is mentioned is mention in one of Fox/Scott's books.
I think Greene's "Evidence" and Darling's "Final Hours" support each other.
A shortcoming is there is no bibliography, but there are 24 footnotes which reference 12 works of which I have read 4 (one of which is Benteen's Scout to the Left.) The books is available at www.amazon.com/dp/0962148822?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details at prices from 16.97 - 21.11.
Written in 1992, the subtitle is "Correcting a Century of Misconceived History" and Darling makes a good attempt at doing so. There is only 1 map which covers the general battle area from Rosebud with graphics indicating key fetures (such as The Crows Nest, Lone Teepee, Reno Hill, Weir Point, and Custer Hill) and mostly shows rivers. A route would have provided some needed focus for the first time reader of a Custer study.
He headlines the myth quite early as "A century of tradition would be that the dashing Custer and his heroic cavalrymen were executing a clever, tactical pincer-maneuver against an Indian village, only to suffer defeat from overwhelming numbers of hostile savages."
The basic premise is Custer's superiors and historians have give him too much credit in the amount of actual tactical and terrain intelligence he knew and/or had available AND that his superiors and historians conflate their understanding on the terrain and situation with what they have learned or inferred since the battle. Careful examination of events and journals should lead one to the conclusion that no one in the 7th understood enemy or the terrain and it not until reaching the vicinity of Weir Point did Custer even begin to understand the enormity of his task. To be fair, his seniors had even less knowledge than he. Custer and the US Army did not understand the Sioux way of war which was to avoid combat except on favorable terms and protection of non-combatants and interpreted this as cowardice rather than tactical caution or humility. (Perhaps Mao was a Sioux in another life.)
Jerome Green's 1973 "Evidence" is not in the bibliography/footnotes, nor are any of Fox's and Scott's books. I believe these two books support's each other in their conclusion, even though they were written far apart.
Only Darling's "A Sad and Terrible Blunder" is mentioned is mention in one of Fox/Scott's books.
I think Greene's "Evidence" and Darling's "Final Hours" support each other.
