As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I am going to violate a rule I have in quoting Indians, for the reason of I am quoting an American quoting Indians and to reveal some things in Indian deception, as much as the military cover up of the mass assassination of the Custer group at the Little Big Horn.
To review, the reason that one does not quote Indians nor trust them, is they lie, lie, lie and lie. It is their character as savages of that age to deceive enemies to murder them and to fabricate their exploits to gain standing among their own tribe.
The following is a lengthy quote of the Battle of the Little Big Horn by General Nelson Miles. It deals with his riding over the battlefield with the Indians who were there. He had just soundly thrashed them in battle, so the Indian respected him and would not be prone to lie to him. But, the Indians did not know all in this battle, as I have featured a document written by Annie Yates, wife of one of the assassinated officers, assisted by Nelson Miles and quoted by Elizabeth Custer in her book, Follow the Guidon, in which it is stated that one officer of C Company as named in this blog, did not do his duty, fled the field with some of his men, who took refuge in the timber.
This started the rolling up of the line of the 7th Cavalry. We know this, because the living 7th found these survivors cheering in greeting them in another Lame Cherry exclusive only produced here.
Nelson Miles makes no mention of this, and it may be this memoir was written before the Yates memorial or he was being clever in covering up the situation. The point though is that the Indians told General Miles that 40 men fled at defeat and were all killed. While Annie Yates on evidence of survivors who were not all killed, stated that the flight took place long before the end. These bucks were then either not in the battle or mistaken in group, but the point is they lied to Nelson Miles and the proof is the wounded survivors of C Company.
That is not to state that all of this is worthless, but it reveals that if the Indians were lying to someone they respected, then this rubbish in quoting Indians as sources, is all worthless, because when they lied to Miles who they respected, they certainly were going to lie to a reporter who they had no respect for.
The key elements in this are the forensics, as provided by placement, and by surviving Officers, as this can not be denied.
General Miles records damning evidence in Major Marcos Reno abandoned a strong position, for absolutely no sound military reason. Reno was either a coward or part of a conspiracy to assassinate General Custer as he had exposed the corrupt old military gaurd at Congress in the Indian Ring, run out of the Grant Regime.
You have to understand the key in this, in Grant was furious, General Sherman was furious. The merchants were furious, and there were prejudices in this, in the army in those who would side with President Grant their victor in the Civil War or with George Custer who broke military silence, exposing thee entire syndicate in how it was causing terrorism, murder and rape of American settlers, wars, Indian destruction and all for profit.
Grant had already retaliated as had Sherman on George Custer in removing him from command. Elizabeth Custer wrote of this in "officers making lists of other officers in how they would die or leave service, so they could then advance up the ladder".
I have mentioned in the letter of Frederick Benteen to his wife, a quote sociopathic condition, in the 7th had just had slaughtered hundreds of men he knew, and his entire letter was dealing with who would be promoted and to keep the "bring up packs" note as it would be valuable.
It is not that difficult of stretch to have a sociopath in Benteen and a coward who had just been castigated by George Custer for not following up an Indian war party in Reno, to simply conclude they were doing the Grant regime a favor in protecting Grant and get a promotion out of it too.
We know the Grant regime took forever to investigate this, left the Custer command to rot on the plains for 2 years, and when investigated they cleared Reno and Benteen in the cover up.
Nelson Miles point blank states that there were no Indians any where near Benteen and Reno, as survivors marched out to them. They sat there several hours, knowing the Custer command was in distress by mass volley firing, and they did not move.
That is willful homicide.
In a separate part of the Miles memoirs, he states that Sitting Bull had an entire runner corp who had him in constant contact with the entire region in tribes of Indians. That is what set up the Little Big Horn, and it could not have been initiated without the support of the Indian traders and commands who were supposed to be monitoring these Indians in Canada and Minnesota.
So we have an Indian syndicate operating, making profits for Indian Ring traders, who are bribing the Grant regime, and their major problem is George Armstrong Custer, who was murdered, and by the insider press, was smeared, and is still being smeared to cover up this conspiracy.
Frederick Benteen and Marcos Reno were protected in failing to follow orders, cowardice and by after statements by Benteen, and actions by Reno a conspiracy to advance. They should have faced court martial and been hung, as they did not deserve shooting.
I have in other writings on this long ago related a bizarre set of events in Fort Abraham Lincoln, after Reno was rewarded with command of the 7th Cavalry and it is as follows.
Reno was not the type of psyche who could deal with murdering people no matter how he talked himself into it. On June 25th, 1876, he got drunk, which means he knew what he was doing to the Custer command and could not handle it.
At the Fort, he literally started sexually stalking the wife of one of the men of the 7th, and it was beyond unbalanced. He tried to cover it up, and the man he turned to was Frederick Benteen.
In forensic psychology, patterns mean things. Reno turned to Benteen, because Reno had turned to Benteen previously in some conspiratorial matter with success. That matter was the murder of General Custer and his command.
What is true to form with Benteen though is, not even to save himself, would he move from this psychopathy of hating all those in authority. His career was clash and conflict with superiors, and when Reno who was protecting him, turned to Benteen for support to ruin this woman who was being stalked, Benteen refused to do it, and hung Reno out to punishment.
That is the malice and sociopathy of Frederick Benteen.
All of the evidence, all of the actions and all of the people, point to a conspiracy to mass assassinate the Custer command and hide it in Indians doing it, like Joab leaving Uriah exposed to be murdered by the enemy.
Fifteen minutes would have brought Reno and Benteen into action to relieve the Custer command. The reality is the Indians by other known actions, as they related and General Miles knew, if the Reno and Benteen commands had simply followed and fired into the Indians, the Indians would have retreated in being caught between two lines of fire.
If Reno had simply continued firing from his strong position, into the Indian camp. the Last Stand would have never taken place, as General Custer was by his actions attempting to relieve Reno who was not following orders.
As I have stated, there is no mystery in the Little Big Horn in all these books put out, and as my work has helped change the tide, others are coming to the same conclusions which were known by General Nelson Miles, Annie Yates and Elizabeth Custer. The propaganda though from the power elite, in the same people who benefited from Abraham Lincoln assassinated on both sides of the Atlantic, have covered up the mass assassination of the 7th Cavalry in the Custer command.
I leave this with the Nelson quote, and will have more on this in the Heroes of Moylan and Godfrey as they were sources of General Nelson Miles and never mentioned. Their story will appear in the Lame Cherry exclusives in matter anti matter.
This all should be a in book as the assassins of George Custer lived to cover up the crime while his friends, except for Elizabeth Custer, Nelson Miles and Annie Yates were murdered, and the friends could not come out with their evidence, lest they too perish.
"The first day General Custer marched twelve miles, and in four days he moved one hundred and eight miles, ten of which were to conceal his command. He frequently called his officers together and urged them to act in harmony and not become separated. He said he did not expect to fight until the 26th. He scouted the country, saw Indians in the distance, and, knowing his command would be discovered and fearing the Indians would escape, he decided to attack on the 25th.
He formed his command for action in three parallel columns, within deploying and supporting distance; moving with the right column himself. Major Reno, commanding the center, following the Indian trail, and Captain Benteen on the left. He rode forward to a high bluff. Discovering the location of the camp just before going into action, he sent an order to Benteen, directing the left column, to alter its course, which would have changed the formation and brought this command into the center instead of on the left.
The order was, "Come on. Big village. Be quick. Bring packs. P. S. Bring packs." (The packs contained the reserve ammunition.) The courier who carried this order was the best guide as to where the command should have gone. Custer waved his hat to Reno's troops as they were going into action and were the first to become engaged.
With trifling loss Reno abandoned a very strong position and retreated in a demoralized condition. Benteen, moving slowly in the direction of Custer, stopped to rally Reno's troops, and the two commands remained there, out of action, although for hours they heard the firing, and at one time volley-firing, a signal for help. The Indians left them to go down and fight Custer.
After repeated appeals to Reno, two loyal and gallant officers, Weir and Edgerly, did move out far enough to discover a great commotion, dust, and smoke in the valley below, where the fight was going on. A reconnoi-tering force is not expected, after having discovered or developed the enemy, to attack, but reports facts to the main force.
At one time a brave scout, Heren-deen, with thirteen soldiers, marched out from the timber in the strong position first occupied by Reno's troops, walked across the plains, forded the river and rejoined Reno's command on the hill. These two movements proved positively that there were no Indians around Reno and Benteen, while Custer was being overwhelmed.
After he, with five troops, had been defeated and annihilated, the Indians, with their captured arms and ammunition, went to fight the seven troops under Reno and Benteen, and were repulsed. It is not necessary to describe the battle, but it may be well to record the information gained at that early date from the prominent Indians who were conspicuous in the battle and knew perfectly well how it was fought.
They said they were celebrating their victory over General Crook and sleeping very late that morning. When Reno's troops fired into their village the Uncapapas and Ogalallas rushed for their arms and war ponies, fought Reno, and chased his command "like buffalo" across the plains, over the river and up the bluff. Just at that time the alarm passed among the Indians that another command (Custer's) was attacking their village. The two tribes then withdrew, and, without recrossing the river, passed down along the right bank of the Little Big Horn and massed opposite to the left of Custer's troops. The Minneconjoux and Sans Arcs had crossed the river and were fighting Custer's troops back and forth. They said it was a drawn battle up to that time.
The Cheyennes had moved up the valley against Reno's attack without becoming engaged, but when the alarm of Custer's attack was given they retraced their steps, moving down the left bank of the Little Big Horn, and, fording the river, took position behind a ridge near the right flank of Custer's line. The Uncapapas and Ogalallas then charged his left flank, rolling up his line from left to right. When that point was reached the soldiers killed some of their horses for defense and let loose the remainder. The Cheyennes said they secured most of these.
The fight continued, and when the Indians had killed all except forty those who remained rushed in a forlorn hope for the timber along the Little Big Horn. All were killed before they reached the river. This accounts for the line of dead bodies on that part of the field on which no dead horses were found.
The Indians said that they would have fled if Reno's troops had not retreated, for the troops could not have been dislodged. They also said that, when they left to attack Custer, had the seven companies under Reno and Benteen followed them down and fired into their backs they would have been between two fires and would have had to retreat. Thus the battle was twice lost.
We walked our horses over the ground from Reno's last position to the extreme right of Custer's line, and were fifty-six minutes by the watch. Had Reno's command walked half that distance it would have been in action. Moving at a smart trot or gallop, as cavalry go into action, it could have attacked the Indians in the rear easily in fifteen or twenty minutes.
Custer had commanded large bodies of troops successfully in many desperate battles. How his strong heart must have felt when he saw from the ridge a part of his own regiment running from the field and when the major part of his command failed to come into action! His flag went down in disaster, but with honor. The greatest military genius could not win victories with five-twelfths of his command, when seven-twelfths remained away. Had Grouchy marched to the sound of the guns instead of Bliicher the story of Waterloo would have been written differently.
Custer had devoted friends and bitter enemies. His brothers and strongest friends died with him, while his enemies lived to criticize and cast odium upon his name and fame; but it is easy to kick a dead lion."
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925. Serving the Republic
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