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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: December 21, 2014
Caption: Custer Monument - Interpretive Display
Additional Description: Panel 12 - caption 4
Captain Frederick W. Benteen
Major Marcus A. Reno
On June 25, 1876, Custer divided the 7th Cavalry and attacked the Indian village. The role of his two principal subordiantes is controversial. Some blame them for what happened to Custer. Others blame Custer himself.
(Benteen photo) Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
(Reno photo) Denver Public Library, Western History Department
Submitted: December 22, 2014, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p296052
File Size: 2.496 Megabytes

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