Two individual decisions sealed the fate of an army officer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Lt. George E. Lord, the chief surgeon, was the only member of the 6th Infantry assigned to accompany ...

This story is part of a series marking the 125th anniversary of The Battle at the Little Big Horn, in June 1876. On Oct. 9, 1864, before the Union force of Brig. Gen. George Custer charged into the ...

‘Custer’s Last Stand,’ an 1899 oil-on-canvas painting by Edgar Samuel Paxson, depicts the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana from the point of view of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Lt.

BRAINERD — People may not remember the Battle of Little Big Horn. But they’ve almost certainly heard of Custer’s Last Stand. They are one and the same, however, with the latter popularized as an ...

The object of Custer is to analyze the ideas and judgements that helped shape the man’s military decisions, his behavior in battle and in life, and the failure that caused him to be court martialed in ...