Ed Price wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...

John Smith wrote:

... how we slaughtered helpless indians with bows and arrows with our
rifles...

Custer might disagree with you on just how
helpless those Indians were. :-)
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



IIRC, the 7th was using US issue single-shot, rolling block rifles. Studies
of the distribution of spent cartridge cases indicates that the Indians had
quite a few Winchester repeating rifles. Further, Custer had left his
battery of Gatling guns far behind, as he felt they slowed his maneuver
ability.


I heard that Custer was at the bottom of his class at West Point, barely
made it through to graduate, and was not very good at most of the skill
sets needed to survive at being an Indian Fighting General.

tom
K0TAR