"In June 1864 Two of the Civil War´s Fierest Cavalry..." Topic

… COMMANDERS FACED OFF AT TREVILIAN STATION, VIRGINIA.

"As Union brigadier general George Armstrong Custer barked out orders, the troops of his Michigan Brigade perfected their defense, churning up the dust as they deployed. They had just captured a large number of Confederate wagons, caissons, horses, and prisoners. But they were behind enemy lines in Virginia. Southern cavalrymen had the 800 Michiganders surrounded, caught inside what one Union trooper called "a living triangle."

As enemy troops swirled around them, many of Custer's squadrons remained mounted—a requirement for quick counterthrusts—but some took to the ground. On the eastern edge of the encirclement, dismounted horsemen hurriedly knelt behind a fence-rail barricade, their Spencer repeating carbines glistening in the midmorning sun…"

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Armand

Custer could have used some fence-rail barricades on 06-25-1876.

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Armand

Not captioning the photographs and illustrations is reely vexatious.

Choctaw-Custer should have called upon the spirits of the dishonoured British 41st regiment which abandoned the prisoners taken at river raisin in january 1813 to be massacred by their indian allies.That was a dreadful miscalculation.The massacre had to be a factor in Custers psyche,as Monroe Michigan is Frenchtown-his hometown. A battalion of redcoats forming square with 18 inch triangular bayonettes might have been handy.

The 41st was overrun and captured at the battle of the Thames in October 1813 -by Kentuckians yelling remember the raisin !

Glup!.

Armand