Gettysburg Ties to the Battle of the Little Bighorn- with LBG Jim Hessler
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 เม.ย. 2022
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Jim Hessler and I love the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Sometimes, we need a palate-cleanser from all this Gettysburg-stuff and, so, I invited Jim on to talk about Gettysburg connections to the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Several officers who served with the 7th Cavalry were veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg, most famously, of course, was General Custer, but another name that many know is that of Myles Keogh, who served on Buford's staff here at Gettysburg. There are others too. You'll just have to watch.
**EDITING NOTE: You'll notice cuts in the conversation, I think about 4. That's because of the computer issues we had at the time. The audio version found on Patreon does not have these cuts.
Dude , Jim is the s**t! Love his takes on the history, brother. Those who don’t know the real Custer are missing out.
I agree!
What a great way to reinvigorate interest in Custer and the Little Bighorn. You and Hessler were very enjoyable to listen to. I guess I'll have to dive back in to this whole thing again now. Thanks a lot (sarcasm)!
Thank you. LBH is one of my favorite palette cleansers
Fabulous!! Great questions and Jim Hessler rocks!!
Those visiting Little Big Horn MUST also include a side trip to Fetterman Massacre site (only about an hour south) near Sheridan, WY!!
Thanks for listening!
Jim Hessler.
Always good. Never fails.
Thanks.
Yessir
Getting one of Little Big Horn books ASAP. Rekindled the interest. Well done!
Great stuff! Little Bighorn is a big fascination of mine.
Same here! (Obviously).
I LOVE Custer!!! Great theme... Thank You!
Thank you. That theme is from a miniseries called Som of the Morning Star. I can only find it on TH-cam but it’s good. Great book too
Thank you for this. To bad, that no one can do a Battle of San Juan Hill podcast!
I’m sure someone will, someday.
Custer and his wife Libby spent some time in Elizabethtown Kentucky after the Civil War
Oh yeah? Was he assigned there or were they just traveling?
I want to hear him talk The Alamo, I love Gettysburg, Little Bighorn and the Alamo
That might be a fun palette cleanser for Patreon
Saw a bumper sticker years ago with a pic of Sitting Bull “Custer had it coming…”. Great show, very interesting.
According to IMBD the low ratings of the Son of the Morning Star mini series led ABC to pull the plug on funding for The Killer Angels, subsequently picked up by Ted Turner and TNT
That’s funny you mention that. I was just reading an article about the movie in the Civil War Times. The issue was from the 90s. I learned that fact about ABC just a few days ago in that article. Funny how things work like that.
Good evening men
Evening
on the rifle reliability issue. how would the extractor failure arguments fit in with combat stress, dirt, black powder, and slamming the cover in a hurry or to get the shell out. stomp on a m16 charging handle with a "really stuck" case will cause extractor failure.
I’d guess it all factored into it
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse spanked the fuck out of Custer
They did indeed
Audio is choppy
In which part?
@@addressinggettysburg before 29 minutes . Maybe that was just the live feed
@@addressinggettysburg doesn’t sound bad on the relisten… good show
Why do you say “we” stole the black hills? Who is “we”? I hate that people collectively assume responsibility for things like this. We weren’t here. Evidently the Indians couldn’t defend it and it was taken cry me a river
Seriously? Out of two hours THAT’S what you hone in on?
It’s much easier to find something I disagree with or wasn’t entertained by in two hours than the opposite. It’s a very good podcast host and guest chill
This is good. Some details about the battle were not discussed but, overall, this is a damn good discussion about the Little Bighorn. There are a few errors - for example, there were very few Arapaho Indians at the Little Bighorn; in fact, if I remember aright, I don't believe there were more than six Arapaho warriors in the battle - hardly a whole tribe.
Are you referring to the “Arapaho Five”?
@@addressinggettysburg Yes, though I never heard these five warriors referred to as such. But there were only half-a-dozen or so Arapahos in the Little Bighorn village on June 25, 1876.
My facts might be slightly askew, but I believe these 5 Arapahos were actually detained in the village. The Sioux and Cheyenne thought they might've been scouts for the Bluecoats. When the Seventh Cavalry attacked their camp, the Sioux practically forced these five warriors to fight - perhaps to prove they were not actually scouts for the U.S. Army?
In any event, the five Arapahos did fight in the battle, albeit reluctantly. A couple - maybe more - were killed, and I think one of them - in the chaotic frenzy of battle - accidentally killed a Sioux warrior, or he was killed by a Sioux warrior.
Unfortunately, I cannot remember the source of this information. Were it not so, I'd better be able to provide you with more intrinsic details. Be that as it may, one thing is for certain: the Arapahos, as a tribe, were not present at the Little Bighorn; it was just a few Arapaho warriors, and they were not there voluntarily.