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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, on the Civil War
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To the memory of my parents, David Wendell and Anna Louise Kennamer
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
(Introduction) "We can picture what determination, what bravery, what heroism must have inspired this devoted little band of martyrs when surrounded and assailed by a vasatly overwhelming force of bloodthirsty, merciless and unrestrained barbarians, and that they manfully struggled to the last, equally void of hope or fear."
There was nothing exceptional about George Armstrong Custer as a schoolboy, nothing to suggest that he would become the famous Boy General of the Civil War, and, of course, nothing to predict that he would become a legend for being killed by Indians at the age of thirty-six.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Life is worth living for - or it would be - if it abounded more in such types as Mrs. General Custer and her husband. There was a bright and joyous chivalry in that man, and a noble refinement mingled with constant gaiety in the wife, such as I fear is passing from the earth. - Charles Godfrey Leland, Memoirs
I look back on the days spent under the home-roof as a period of pure happiness, and I feel thankful for such noble parents. - George Armstrong Custer to his father
It requires no extensive knowledge to inform me what is my duty to my country, my command. . . . "First be sure you're right, then go ahead!" I ask myself, "Is it right?" Satisfied that it is so, I let nothing swerve me from my purpose. - Custer to Annette Humphrey, October 9, 1863
I had rather live in a tent, outdoors with you than in a palace with another. - Libbie to Custer, January 1864
Mr. Steadman, [sic] who sought for an introduction to me, told me that during and since the war I had been to him, and, he believed, to most people, the beau ideal of the Chevalier Bayard, "knight sans peur et sans reproche", and that I stood unrivaled as the "young American hero." I repeat this to you alone, as I know it will please you. - Custer to Libbie, 1871
I can say that I never saw troops so badly managed and provided for, both in regard to outfit and rations, as this division of cavalry was while it remained under the command of General Custer, or such a lack of common sense in orders and in the exercise of discipline, as was displayed by its command. - Lt. Col. Alexander G. McQueen, First Iowa Cavalary, January 25, 1867
Once when General Sherman was serving in that region, some one remarked to him that "it was a fine country and all that it needed was plenty of water and good society." To this the General is reported to have replied very brusquely, "That is all that hell needs." - Frances Carrington, My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearny Massacre
I had cast my lot with a soldier, and where he was, was home to me. - Martha Summerhayes, Vanished Arizona
Th Great Spirit did not make us to work, but to live by hunting. You white men can work if you want to. We do not intefere with you, and again you say, why do you not become civilized? We do not want your civilization! We would live as our fathers did, and their fathers before them. I am no white man! - Crazy Horse
However vigilant the troops may be, the Indian on his raid is more so - however well mounted the trooper, the Indian has three mounts to his one. Whatever care may be taken to secure the best arms and ammunition to the troops, the Indians finds means through his frieds to be fully his equal in that respect, and in his entire familiarity with the country, vastly his superior. - General Christopher Augur, Annual Report for the Department of Texas, 1873
I am ready to set out for Hays, or any point where I can see you at fifteen minutes' notice. Remember, I am not afraid of Indians, or anything else, if you are at the end of the trip. - Libbie to Custer, June 27, 1867
I can whip the indians if I can find them, and I shall leave no effort untried to do this. I have a difficult task before me but I am confident that if the Indians can be fouund I can do it as well as most persons could. - Letter from Custer, correspondent unknown, Fort Dodge, Tuesday, October 8, 1868
The old-time rule of the Plains: "When fighting Indians, keep the last bullet for yourself." - Thomas B Marquis, Keep the Last Bullet for Yourself: The True Story of Custer's Last Stand
Three such long-haired show-offs as Custer and the two Bills could never work together. Who would do the admiring, the applauding? - Mari Sandoz, The Buffalo Hunters
These Wasichus wanted it, and they came to get it, and we gave it to them. - Iron Hawk
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To compensate, Libbie had ceaselessly glorified her dead husband; she must have ultimately felt that if she could not be the mother of a Custer line, she could be the benefactor of those who bore "his honored name".
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