Category: Bios: Scouts, Interpreters, Warriors and Chiefs
Libby Custer: Loyalty for a Lifetime [EDITOR’S NOTE (Unrelated, but related, material): This post seems timely. It comes on the heels of Michigan’s NCAA basketball championship win. Elizabeth Custer was a true Michigan native....
March 31 marks reporter Mark Kellogg’s date of birth. As a correspondent for the Bismarck Tribune, Kellogg accompanied General Alfred Terry’s Dakota Column into Montana Territory in 1876. He would report on the campaign...
Myles Keogh: Irish Cavalier Myles Keogh is likely the Seventh Cavalry’s best-known member aside from its infamous leader George Armstrong Custer. That renown results mostly from his famous horse, Comanche, who survived the battle...
Sources vary, but most give March 20, 1842 as the birth date of a quiet — but very competent — individual who came to be known as “Lonesome” Charley Reynolds. After serving the Union...
Readers will note that thus far my posts have mainly entailed events of 1876 viewed from the white man’s histories and perspectives. That is largely because I try to correlate posts to specific calendar...
I initially planned this post for mid-May. It was May 14, 1876 when Custer hired Isaiah Dorman as a scout and interpreter. However, with this month observed as Black History Month, the post belongs...