The Reno Court of Inquiry: Preface

By Ethan E. Harris

On June 25-26, 1876, five companies of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, engaged Sioux and Cheyenne warriors at the Little Bighorn River, in what is now Montana. The battle resulted in one of the worst disasters in U.S. military history. The 7th Cavalry lost 268 men, including Custer himself. The second in command, Major Marcus A. Reno, who survived the battle, requested a court of inquiry to clear allegations of dereliction of duty. The Reno court of inquiry was held at the Palmer House in Chicago, from January 13 through February 11, 1879.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Ethan E. Harris
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310821172

Ethan E. Harris

Ethan E. Harris graduated from Corban University in Salem, OR with a Bachelor’s degree in Theology and studied at Reformed Theological Seminary. He completed the Educational graduate program at the University of Kansas where he received his Curriculum and Instruction degree in December, 2011. He is a member of Golden Key International Honor Society, a Bronze Star recipient and was an Army Medic for 13 years.With extensive travel throughout the United States, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Kuwait, Germany, the Bahamas and Hawaii, his multicultural experiences give him a greater depth of knowledge and humility of many peoples and lifestyles. He has a keen interest in languages having studied Greek, French and Cherokee.He lives in San Antonio, TX, with his wife and six children.

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Table of Contents

Introductory Chapter

The Custer Massacre

Appendix

Exhibits

Explanatory Note

Errata

About the Author

PROCEEDINGS OF A COURT OF INQUIRY IN THE CASE OF MAJOR MARCUS A. RENO CONCERNING HIS CONDUCT AT THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN RIVER JUNE 25-26, 1876

The Court of Inquiry of Major Reno

Preface

Ethan E. Harris

Copyright 2013 Ethan E. Harris

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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

    The Sioux War of 1876 has ever been a subject of engrossing interest to students of our many conflicts with the Indians of the western plains. It reached its zenith on June 25 of the Centennial Year when at the battle of the Little Big Horn River in Southeastern Montana, Brevet Major General George A. Custer, then Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Seventh United States Cavalry, together with his entire detachment, comprising Companies C, E, F, I and L of that regiment, perished to a man in combat with the warrior horde that followed the Hunkpapa medicine man, Sitting Bull. The remaining seven companies, whose field of battle was located some four miles distant from the scene of the Custer disaster, also suffered heavy losses.

  Because of the manner in which this greatest of all armed conflicts between the white trooper and the red warrior was waged, the battle or the Little Big Horn, despite its comparative unimportance, has provoked almost, if not quite as much controversial discussion throughout the intervening years as has any combat in which our troops have been engaged.

  A principal reason (though by no means the only one), that has contributed most largely to this condition, has been the dearth of reliable source material: and it is the purpose of this volume to relieve that deficiency to the greatest