The Great American History Blog

  First Lieutenant William Van Wyck Reily was one of the youngest officers in the 7th Cavalry Regiment and among those killed at the Battl...

  On June 16, 1875, James “Jack” Sturgis graduated from West Point and was appointed a 2nd Lt, in the 7th Cavalry.   Jack Sturgis, at twenty...

  Daniel Nimham  Stockbridge, Massachusetts began as a mission or “praying town” for Mochicans and Wappinger Indians.   The so-called Stockb...

  In July 1862, Congress authorized a Medal of Honor to be awarded to soldiers who “distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action.”   ...

  Sergeant Major John Champe (1752 -1798) was a senior enlisted soldier in the Continental Army serving in the Virginia Cavalry under “Ligh...

  On June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, five companies of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, under the direct command of George Arms...

  Heavy drinking was common in the frontier army. But did it lead to the death of George Armstrong Custer? Was Major Marcus Reno drunk at th...

    Merritt and Custer opposite each other across the table      Two outstanding Civil War era cavalry officers had remarkably similar caree...

  The classic Custer movie, They Died with Their Boots On , starring Errol Flynn, presents a mangled version of the life and death of Georg...

        In 1920, sixty six year old Frank Finkel was a moderately wealthy farmer in Dayton, Washington, living a quiet life with his wife an...

       On June 25, 1876, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, five companies of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, under the direct command of George...