Yeah well, no videos of the Civil War, or Custer's

Yeah well, no videos of the Civil War, or Custer's Last Stand either.

Some video of the Spanish American War; so the '90's were the beginning of full motion video, without sound.

We're only a decade way from 100 years since the advent of 'talkies'.

Think of when you were a kid if you could have seen sound movies of the Crimean War and everything after that.

Think of the Sioux watching captured war correspondent footage of the Battle of the Little Bighorn projected on to the side of a teepee.

"Nice scalp taking, Running Bear! Who shot 'long hair'?"

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During the 1920s, two elderly Cheyenne women spoke briefly with oral historians about their having recognized Custer's body on the battlefield and said that they had stopped a Sioux warrior from desecrating the body.

The women were relatives of Mo-nah-se-tah, who was alleged to have been Custer's one-time lover in late 1868 and through 1869, and borne two children by him. In the Cheyenne culture of the time, such a relationship was considered a marriage.

The women allegedly told the warrior: "Stop, he is a relative of ours," and then shooed him away. The two women said they shoved their sewing awls into his ears to permit Custer's corpse to "hear better in the afterlife" because he had broken his promise to Stone Forehead never to fight against Native Americans again .[92]

When the main column under General Terry arrived two days later, the army found most of the soldiers' corpses stripped, scalped, and mutilated.[93][94] Custer's body had two bullet holes, one in the left temple and one just below the heart.[95] Capt. Benteen, who inspected the body, stated that in his opinion the fatal injuries had not been the result of .45 caliber ammunition, which implies the bullet holes had been caused by ranged rifle fire.[96]

Some time later, Lieutenant Edward S. Godfrey described Custer's mutilation, telling Charles F. Bates that an arrow "had been forced up his penis."[97]

The bodies of Custer and his brother Tom were wrapped in canvas and blankets, then buried in a shallow grave, covered by the basket from a travois held in place by rocks. When soldiers returned a year later, the brothers' grave had been broken into by animals and the bones scattered. "Not more than a double handful of small bones were picked up."[98] Custer was reinterred with full military honors at West Point Cemetery on October 10, 1877. The battle site was designated a National Cemetery in 1876.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer

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