E. A. Brininstool

Troopers With Custer: Historic Incidents Of The Battle Of The Little Big Horn (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"e;No one survived in Custer's immediate command, but other soldiers fighting in the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876, were doomed to remember the nightmarish scene for decades after. Their true and terrible stories are included in Troopers with Custer. Some of the veterans who corresponded with E. A. Brininstool were still alive when his book first appeared in a shortened version in 1925. It has long been recognized as classic Custeriana."e;More incisively than many later writers, Brininstool considers the causes of Custer's defeat and questions the alleged cowardice of Major Marcus A. Reno. His exciting reenactment of the Battle of the Little Big Horn sets up the reader for a series of turns by its stars and supporting and bit players. Besides the boy general with the golden locks, they include Captain Frederick W. Benteen, the scouts Lieutenant Charles A. Varnum and "e;Lonesome Charley"e; Reynolds, the trumpeter John Martin, officers and troopers in the ranks who miraculously escaped death, the only surviving surgeon and the captain of the steamboat that carried the wounded away, the newspaperman who spread the news to the world, and many others."e;-Print ed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Normanby Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786251862
• Artikelnr.: 44754322

Autorenporträt

Earl Alonzo Brininstool was born in Warsaw, New York, in 1870. In 1895 he moved with his wife, Estelle, to Los Angeles, California, where he pursued a career in journalism. At different times, he worked as a reported, editorial writer, and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Record, Examiner, and Express. Brininstool wrote numerous light sonnets and Western poems in addition to his dozens of magazine articles and ten books devoted to the Indian wars, including Crazy Horse and Fighting Red Cloud's Warriors. He died in 1957 at age eighty-six. Brian C. Pohanka, one of the nation's leading authorities on the life of the common soldier of the Civil War, is a frequent consultant of film and the television producers on Civil War reenacting and living history. Formerly an assistant editor and researcher for the Time-Life Books Civil War series, he is the author of Distant Thunder: A Photographic Essay on the American Civil War and Civil War: An Aerial Portrait. Pohanka is also active in Custer and Little Bighorn studies, including archaeological work on the Little Bighorn Battlefield. He works as a freelance writer and consultant from his home in Alexandria, Virginia.