A Poem with music about Custer's Battle Of The Little Big Horn River 1876. Poetry written by L. Paul Hyatt and narrated by Patrick C. Allen with musical accompanyment provided by Bristly Pine Publishing studios.
George Armstrong Custer (1838-1876) American soldier, born in New Rumley, Ohio, and educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He was assigned to the Union Army as a second lieutenant and arrived at the front during the Battle of Bull Run. Later after the Civil War had ended he was to become an Indian fighter against Cheyenne warriors in other territories and Kansas 1867-1868
Poem
The year eighteen seventy-six
June twenty-five the day
General Custer and his men
They fought their fatal fray
Indian wars of the great plains
Were the main big concern
There the Sioux and the Cheyenne warriors
Fought at every turn
The main condition cause of war
Was the same age-old fight
The Whites took the Indians' lands
Hostiles killed day and night
The Seventh Regiment was there
Of U.S. Cavalry
General Custer in command
Famous and spirit free
That Seventh Regiment command
Was near nine hundred men
Their main objective in those wars
Control Indians, win
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Gall
Crow King, White Bull and more
Were warfare chiefs with warring ways
They had led wars before
Indian warriors there that day
About five-thousand strong
They were well armed, ready to fight
To right what they saw wrong
The details of Custer's Last Stand
Are not clear nor know well
The U.S. troops in that battle
Did not survive to tell
The rough terrain at battle site
Was good for Hostile's way
Some troopers could not see the foe
They paid with life that day
Custer divided up his force
For reasons not quite clear
Lack of knowledge of Hostile strength
He had not enough fear
The biggest error of that day
Made by the troop command
They failed to learn the Hostile's power
In arms, warriors at hand
There were enough well-known mistakes
For all the leaders there
We only know the Hostiles won
Cavalry "lost their hair"
The biggest fact well known to all
Of Custer's Stand, last ride
Two hundred seventy-six fought
And they to a man died
The long-range results on that day
Were not complete by far
The Hostiles won that one battle
The troopers won the war
