Rumors and accusations began to swirl from the moment General Terry’s command arrived on Reno/Benteen Hill and told the surviving members of the Seventh Cavalry that LT COL George Armstrong Custer was dead.

Thought to have been assisted by Elizabeth “Libbie” Custer, Frederick Whittaker would finish his A Complete Life General George A. Custer just six months later.

Whittaker’s book claimed: “The massacre at the Little Big Horn was due to Reno’s cowardice and Benteen’s indifference.”

It was Major Marcus Reno himself who requested a court of inquiry in Chicago in 1879.

Rather than put the mystery to rest, the results of the Reno Court of Inquiry only continue to add to the controversy surrounding the Little Bighorn fight today...

SOURCES:

Sioux War Dispatches: Reports from the Field, Marc Abrams

Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Bighorn: A Bibliography, Volume I & II, Michael O’Keefe

The Army and Navy Journal of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, James S. Hutchins

The Reno Court of Inquiry, Chicago Times Account, ed by Robert M. Utley

A Complete Life of Major General George A. Custer, Frederick Whittaker


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