Custer and His QuarryA photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Custer and the result of the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873.Wild West
Custer eagerly sought the company and instruction of scientists attached to the Yellowstone expedition of 1873 and, as commander of the Black Hills military reconnaissance survey of 1874, was partly instrumental in securing the services of geologist N.H. Winchell and other scientists. Custer joined ...
KIA= killed in action;WIA=wounded in action;DOW=died of wounds;CW=Civil War veteran;V1=Battle of Washita veteran;V2=fought Indians on 1873 Yellowstone expedition;V3=veteran of both Washita and Yellowstone campaigns;R=recruit (less than nine months service);AG=on advance guard mission;RS=on...
In the comprehensive campaign against the Sioux planned in 1876, Custer's regiment was detailed to the column under the commanding general, Alfred H. Terry, that marched from Bismarck to the Yellowstone River. At the mouth of the Rosebud, Terry sent Custer forward to locate the enemy while he...