Was losing Major Elliot’s strategic location during the extermination of the Southern Cheyenne Arapaho at Washita by Lieutenant Colonel Custer acceptable by U.S. military standards? Captain Benteen thought not.

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"Surely some search will be made for our missing comrades" mocked Benteen's piece, before concluding, "No, they are forgotten."

Custer picked the wrong man to threaten horsewhipping.

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This is the final conclusion of the following:
Moxtaveto ("Black Kettle") at Washita: November 27, 1868 (Introduction) (Updated Title),
Moxtaveto ("Black Kettle") at Washita: 11- 27, 1868 (Re-introduction),
Custer In The Whitehouse & The Abandonment Of Major Elliot (Updated),
Custer "Stayed The Course" & The Kansas Raids,
Custer's Indian Hostages: (One White Woman & 2 White Children, Part 1),
and Custer's Indian Hostages: (One White Woman & 2 White Children, Part 2),

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Custer was pursuing the snow tracks of Dog Soldiers that would eventually lead to Black Kettle’s village on Thanksgiving Day in a cruel irony. The cruelest irony however, was that Black Kettle and his wife would be slain nearly four years to the day that they both escaped Chivington at the Sand Creek Massacre. Black Kettle’s honesty concerning young men in his village he could not control was of no avail. He and his village were going to be "punished" and broken beyond any immediate or distant recovery.

(Taken with permission)
Crossposted at Progressive Historians

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Colonel Hazen refused to give them the protection they sought.
He told them that the federal government had initiated a winter campaign to punish them for attacks against Kansas settlers. When the chiefs returned to their respective winter camps with the bad news, everyone was alarmed.

Near Black Kettle's death (maybe 1/4 mile) at Washita in 2007

Custer's Indian Hostages: (One White Woman & 2 White Children, Part 1)
Custer's success and "victory" would be achieved in one week; however, his lie concerning white hostages in Black Kettle's village in a report after his "victory" would be unsuccessful.

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Black Kettle had lost respect amongst the Cheyenne and Arapahoe for signing the Fort Wise Treaty of 1861.

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ARTICLE 1.

The said chiefs and delegates of said Arapahoe and Cheyenne tribes of Indians do hereby cede and relinquish to the United States all lands now owned, possessed, or claimed by them, wherever situated, except a tract to be reserved for the use of said tribes located within the following described boundaries, to wit:

Close to Black Kettle's death at Washita


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Was losing Major Elliot’s strategic location during the extermination of the Southern Cheyenne Arapaho at Washita by Lieutenant Colonel Custer acceptable by U.S. military standards? Captain Benteen thought not.

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"Surely some search will be made for our missing comrades" mocked Benteen's piece, before concluding,"No, they are forgotten."

Custer picked the wrong man to threaten horsewhipping.

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One of Custer's friends sent Custer a copy of this letter. Custer was enraged, and threatened to horsewhip the man who wrote it. Benteen admitted authorship, after which Custer dismissed him with a curt, "Colonel Benteen, sir, I'll see you later!" Custer never carried through on the threatened horsewhipping.

Bush never carried through with his threat to fire whoever leaked Plame's name, either.
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I've listened long enough to Dick Cheney's pretenses to knowing more about what it means to command in wartime than veterans who've been there and done that.

Cheney's self-projected war wisdom seems most accurately defined by the pipe dreams of the Project For a New American Century with which he has an intimate history.

Cheney's insistance that we stand by and let slip our reverence for the Constitution or face another major attack on the U.S.A. is dishonest fear-mongering at its worst.

Mr. Cheney, when it comes to real war and real combat, you haven't been there. You haven't done that. It's all in a political and foreign policy abstract for you.