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- Mar 21, 2012
Samuel D. Sturgis (1822-1889), who later became Colonel and Commanding Officer of the US 7th Cavalry and Lt. Colonel George A. Custer's superior. He was on detached duty in St. Louis in the summer of 1876, so that Custer commanded in the ill-fated campaign against the Lakota, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne in Montana Territory. His son, 2nd Lt. James G. Sturgis, Company E, was among those killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn.I was a veteran of many Civil War battles, including Wilson’s Creek, Antietam and Brice’s Cross Roads where I tangled with Nathan Bedford Forrest and lost.
Who am I?
What connection did I have with the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
credit: @Ole Miss