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A dispatch to Custer : the tragedy of Lieutenant Kidder

Title: A dispatch to Custer : the tragedy of Lieutenant Kidder / Randy Johnson and Nancy P. Allan ; foreword by John M. Carroll.
Author: Johnson, Randy, 1945-
Publication: Missoula, MT : Mountain Press Pub. Co., 1999.

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Additional Authors

Allan, Nancy P.

Description

xii, 119 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

A Dispatch to Custer tells the little-known story of Lieutenant Lyman Kidder, a young soldier sent on a mission in 1867 to deliver new orders to Lieutenant Colonel George Custer. En route a band of Sioux and Cheyenne ambushed Kidder and his party, killing all eleven soldiers and their Sioux scout. Custer discovered their mutilated bodies a few days later and ordered they be buried in a common grave. When Kidder's father was notified of his son's death, he began the process of recovering his son's remains. Told mainly through the letters of Kidder's family and military colleagues, A Dispatch to Custer conveys a rare intimacy, while the authors' insightful interpretations fill out the story.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-115) and index.

Contents

I. "When the Watchword Is Victory or Death" 1 -- II. Beginnings 7 -- III. "The Noble Work of Putting Down Rebellion" 13 -- IV. Officer's Call 23 -- V. "Uncommonly Dear as a Companion and Friend" 27 -- VI. A Father's Pilgrimage 45 -- VII. Homecoming 73 -- VIII. Remembrance 83 -- Appendix Artifacts 99.

ISBN

0878423990
9780878423996
0878423982
9780878423989

LCCN

99037705

OCLC

ocm41646055
41646055
SCSB-1128398

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library