Troopers with Custer

E. A. Brininstool, J. W. Vaughn

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9780811767125
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

“The stories contained herein are all of actual happenings and actual participants; here are no fictitious names, no colored circumstances. They are part of the real history of the West, and for that reason I am not ashamed to place this volume in the hands of any interested boy or girl, youth or elderly person, who may desire to know the truth about one of the leading Indian battles, and other important frontier happenings pertaining thereto, and the men who played leading parts therein. Every character mentioned in each chapter was a living, breathing person, and every incident related in this book can be vouched for and verified.” From Troopers with Custer.
Although everyone in Custer’s immediate command was killed during the fighting at the Battle of Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876, others who participated in the battle survived. Troopers with Custer tells their stories, often in their own words.

Table of contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Custer Fight in Brief
• Chapter 2. A Trooper’s Account of the Battle
• Chapter 3. Capt. Benteen’s Own Story of the Custer Fight
• Chapter 4. With Col. Chas. A. Varnum at the Little Big Horn
• Chapter 5. A Thrilling Escape–De Rudio and O’Neill
• Chapter 6. Was Major Marcus A. Reno a Coward in the Custer Fight?
• Chapter 7. The Story of Trumpeter Martin
• Chapter 8. Sibley and the Sioux
• Chapter 9. Theodore W. Goldin’s Experience in the Custer Battle Water Detail
• Chapter 10. Two Modest Heroes of the Custer Expedition
• Chapter 11. Was There a Custer Survivor?
• Chapter 12. A Great Newspaper “Scoop”
• Chapter 13. How the Custer Battlefield was Discovered
• Chapter 14. Medal of Honor Heroes in Custer’s Last Fight
• Chapter 15. The Story of “Comanche,” Sole Survivor of the Custer Fight
• Chapter 16. The Famous Brisbin Letter Sheds New Light on the Custer Mystery
• Chapter 17. Were Custer’s Remains Ever Positively Identified?
• Chapter 18. Private George Berry’s Experience in the Custer Campaign of 1876
• Chapter 19. Charley Reynolds, Custer’s Chief of Scouts
• Chapter 20. The Kidder Massacre of 1867 in Custer’s Regime
• Chapter 21. Treatment of Red Men–Gen. John Gibbon’s Opinion
• Acknowledgements