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Custer and Battle of Little Bighorn

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Hi Doktorschley. I've left a comment at both Talk:George Armstrong Custer and Talk:Battle of the Little Bighorn that I hope you'll take a look at. Thanks, --Miskwito 22:01, 6 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

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See discussion in Talk:Fuck#Doktorschley's Greek theory. Anthony Appleyard 20:58, 3 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Tom McLaury's pistol

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As noted on the TALK page, I agree that the transcript of Inquest and Trial (both partly available online, but completely available with additional valuable commentary in Alford Turner, are THE primary sources for all this. If you have something that disagrees with this stuff (which disagrees with itself, but is at least contemporary and taken under oath), you might want to question it.

As to whether or not Tom was armed, my guess is not. Turner thinks so (see pg 202) but I think he's wrong. C. H. "Ham" Light, no friend of the Earps (in fact a mining business partner of Stilwell's!) saw most of the fight from the Aztec House, which still stands, just northwest of the site at 3rd and Fremont. Light testifies at the earlier Inquest (not the later trial, where he does not testify) that he heard the first two shots of the fight, and reached the window while all participants were still standing. Billy was at the house corner shooting, and others were shooting him. Somebody was out in the street with a horse (this would have to be Frank, with his own horse-- it wasn't Tom, for reasons which will be coming). And there was Doc, getting hit and turning around from a bullet struck to the hip, but not falling (so this was not Morgan). The most important thing Light saw was that immediately after the first couple of shots, and while everybody else was still firing, Tom was already running away from the battle, going West on Fremont, to fall at the corner of Fremont and 3rd-- a run and fall that Light saw. So he'd been hit before Light ever saw him, as also concluded by Light. Now, we know two relevant things: The shotgun was used by Holliday early, perhaps in one of the two first shots, because nobody who is burdened with a shotgun (and isn't used to it) starts off shooting a pistol one-handed while they dangle a loaded shotgun (even a short coach gun in the other!). Bourland's testimony also implicates a very large pistol, which was probably the coach gun. Tom was hit by NOTHING other than this shotgun blast, which was early, and nobody else HAD a shotgun. Thus, Tom was hit in first few seconds of the fight. And was already running like hell to get away, by the time Light looked in on the first part of the fight. Nobody gets a double load of 12 buckshot though the chest side-to-side, and then starts shooting off a pistol. Nor did Tom really have TIME to do this. Light says the guy lying at the corner (who is surely Tom) lay there nearly the whole time of the fight and must have been one of the first people shot. Clear enough? If Tom was armed, he didn't use his weapon-- he just didn't have time or means.

The guy in the street with the horse, shooting after this, mistaken for Tom by many, was instead his brother Frank-- which is natural because it was Frank's horse, after all (also the two looked a lot like each other, if you see the caskets pic).

And if all that's not enough, we know where Tom's weapon was-- half a block away, fully loaded, at the Capitol Saloon, as testified to by Andrew Mehan, bar-keep, where Tom had left it between 1 and 2 pm on the day of the fight. (Turner knows this, but refuses to believe it!) The idea that Tom picked up a second pistol on 4th Street (Spangenberg's) or on Allen (The Butcher shop) just before the fight, means he would have had to walk it right by where his own pistol was checked at 4th and Fremont, to get to the fight! Those people who think they saw Tom get a pistol at the butcher's really saw no pistol but infered it. They SAW him get something to bulge his pants pocket. We know what may not have been anything but a lot of money and receipts, which were found on his body.

Was Tom armed all night? Of course, since he didn't drop off his pistol till the next day. Was he armed when Wyatt buffaloed him, at just about the same time he dropped his pistol off? Very probably. Bauer said he saw Tom at the Capitol Saloon AFTER Bauer himself saw Tom pistolwhipped by Wyatt. So either Tom visited that saloon twice that day (once just before being beaten and once after) or else (as seems more likely), he went there shortly after being beaten to drop off his pistol and get a drink. And yes, while it's amazing that Frank continued to fire while gut-shot, it would be even more amazing if Tom had continued with 12 buckshot through both lungs, side to side. S B H arris 21:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Starting the fight

Here is the one problem I have with Alford E. Turner's reconstruction The OK Corral Inquest. Turner says that the first shot to hit Billy was fired by Morgan Earp and hit him in the chest. The fact is that the chest wound was in the left breast, above the nipple. This was the killing shot. Morgan and Holliday opened the firing (Wyatt aparently lied on this point to protect his brother and his friend), with Doc Holliday drawing his pistol, shoving it into Frank McLaury's belly and then stepping back a couple of paces. He and Morgan fired almost simultaneously. Morgan's shot would have been the one that hit Billy in the wrist as he drew, forcing Billy to continue the fight by firing left handed. He showed his mettle, however, by hitting at least two of the Earp Party before going down himself.~~Doktorschley. 2 March 2008.

A. Bauer (who knew none of the men) saw a man we presume to be Doc poke one of the cowboys in the stomach with a "large bronze pistol". Doc himself was mentioned to carry a nickel-plated pistol, so if this was Doc, he wasn't using his pistol to poke with. But the mystery is easily solved if we remember that Doc has a very short barrelled coach gun shotgun, which presumably would have been the right color and size. Bauer, a dressmaker, cannot have been expected to know this if Doc was holding the weapon one-handed. Light's testimony suggests Tom was hit early in the first two shots, and we know that was a shotgun blast from doc. That would put this early in the fight. The idea that Doc poked Frank has no basis that I know of. Doc would not have carried a loaded shotgun while using a pistol in a close up gunfight-- that's simply crazy. Wyatt said one of the first two shots was him shooting Frank, and this may be true. He also said the other was Billy shooting at him, and I think this is NOT true, and covers for Doc. Old timers do think Doc fired first. They are probably right, but it was surely with the shotgun. SBHarris 04:28, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for DE-vandalising the LBH article

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Don't those fools have a life? Some good edits too. I've been to the Battlefield several times and last summer took a group thru the area. It's a really moving experience. I added those US Army Command and Staff College maps of Reno's move toward the Indian Village, because, that map is more accurate and until you've seen Reno's actual line of attack across the field from the southeast, you don't really appreciate that Reno just didn't see enough of the actual size of the Indian Village until he got just up to the twist in the Little Bighorn River that runs directly behind the present private Custer Battle Museum in Garryowen. The trees and brush on the opposite side of the river probably greatly prohibited his view of just how big the Village was until it was basically too late for him. Interestly enough, he moved off his original dismounted line into the trees well before he took serious casualities. The Indians had been coming to his left front and massing there as they made ready to get well to his rear. His move to the trees was not really from taking casualties but from the threat that those young braves increasingly provided him. Keep up the thought-provoking work! I didn't realize how much Gall's account might have been subsequently self-serving until reading a recent version of the Battle. Michno makes him out to be quite a key participant. SimonATL (talk) 01:21, 30 December 2008 (UTC) Michno is actually the one who points out the criticism's of Gall's accounty by other Indian participants--accounts the Army ignored. Michno's account I consider the best, since it is the only one to include and rationalize all the Indian accounts--and these were the only participants to survive. On Reno's retreat from his skirmish, of course the real casualties were suffered in the retreat from the trees up to the bluffs. Finally, Custer had a perfectly good view of the size of the Village, and the fact that he proceeded with his insanity AFTER the Crow Scouts asked leave to depart, shows just what a fool he was. The comments by senior officers years later that expressed admiration for his tactical decision-making merely illustrate the official cover-up that was in place, and that continues to be in place, apparently.Doktorschley (talk) 12:05, 9 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

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I don't mind your corrections, and actually appreciate them. As a writer, I am grateful for all that good, critical editing has done to make my academic writing publishable. Thank you.Doktorschley (talk) 22:33, 6 March 2012 (UTC)DoktorschleyReply

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