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...nearly a century, the name of Major Marcus Reno has been tainted with the suspicion that his cowardice was responsible for the massacre of Custer's Last Stand. Last week Manhattan Bartender Charles Reno, a grandnephew of the ill-fated cavalry officer, asked the Army to return the major to full rank and take his body from an unmarked grave in Washington for burial among his comrades at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery in Montana...
Reno, a West Point graduate, was second in command of the 7th Cavalry's 600 troopers on June 25, 1876, when Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer ordered the attack at Little Big Horn. For days, scouts had been telling Custer that thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians were encamped in the area, but he had dismissed the reports as exaggerations. "I guess we'll get through with them in one day," he said...
...battle plan, according to a well-documented biography of Reno, Faint the Trumpet Sounds, Custer gave the major three companies to attack the south end of the camp, keeping five companies for himself, which Reno thought Custer would use to support him if he ran into heavy opposition. Reno's force of 112 officers and men had barely forded the Little Big Horn River when at least 500 Indians hit the front line and left flank. No relief force was in sight, and Reno ordered his men to dismount and fight on foot. Against odds as high...
Hurrah, Boys! Meanwhile, Custer had sighted the eastern edge of the Indian camp and decided to attack. Thinking the warriors were asleep in their tepees, Custer shouted: "Hurrah, boys, we've got them! We'll finish them up and then go home." With 205 men and a newspaper reporter, Custer charged-and the rest is history...
...Caribbean and their assault on New York and Yale. Heikki Lampela had secured the sponsorship and the theatre. The Belmont housewives and the high school kids and the old men and women and the Harvard and Radcliffe students had run the gauntlet of picketers carrying signs reading "Custer Died for Your Sins" and "Sing Away Your Sickness with a Right-Wing Melody." They were all buzzing in their seats now. It was Sunday night and everything was ready...