7th Cavalry Regiment

Um, So he is Captain Nathan Ogden.

He was part of the 7th Cavalry and he sat backstage like near catatonic.

I'm like drunk.

I'm dying to see what you thought of this because it's a very different Tom Cruise portrayal, isn't it?

Zeb takes him to this fancy restaurant.

They're there.

There's two Japanese men with Western clothing and his old kind of commander from the 7th Cavalry, Colonel Bagley, who's played by that little shit... uh from the sick day and i did with ryan from the walk the line podcast go back and listen to that one he plays a good villain no way he's calling him yeah he's a great little shit tawny goldwyn absolutely one of the matters that you're like oh yeah he like i know he does similar like roles but he's good at it it's like william atherton playing like a weasley kind of bureaucratic little toss pot it worked i haven't seen a toss pot for years it works like it really really works and So yeah, play East Jens.

I love it.

And in 1963, you enlist in the U.S. Army.

Two years later, you're a platoon leader with the 7th Cavalry.

and you find yourself in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam.

In the middle of the first major battle of the war, your men call you hardcore.

They stole the territory off the Crow.

It was their ancestral territory, which is why so many Crow and Rickera scouts worked with the Seventh Cav with Custer.

Well, Dr. Strangelove, thank you very much for the comment.

And yeah, the Black Hills have definitely changed hands quite a bit.

General Sheridan also wanted to know more about this area.

for he had decided that he needed a fort somewhere near there to keep watch over the sioux early in eighteen seventy four he won authority to send a military expedition to look for a suitable location to command it he turned to his young protege at fort lincoln for the troopers of custer's seventh cavalry the black hills expedition of eighteen seventy four turned out to be a summer's lark among forested game-rich slopes drained by rushing creeks full of trout on the northeastern edge of the hills custer found an ideal site for sheridan's military post fort meade would be established there in eighteen seventy eight but of vaster greater consequence in the streams of the hills themselves he found confirmation of the rumors of gold a courier bearing official dispatches took the word out gold in the black hills shouted the newspaper headlines even before the year's end gold seekers had rushed to the black hills and the spring of eighteen seventy five saw the stampede under way in earnest custer city deadwood and other mining camps sprang up in the most promising valleys vainly the army tried to turn back the prospectors vainly too the government tried to buy the black hills from the sioux although some of the agency chiefs gave signs of weakening the turbulent young warriors who spent part of the year with sitting bull would have none of it any chief who signed risked his life at the hands of these men the indians attitude irritated government officials rationalizing that the sioux had broken the treaty by raiding around the edges of the unceded territory they laid plans to end the troublesome roaming of the non-treaty bands and to press the agency chiefs to sell the black hills president grant himself quietly approved a new policy soldiers would no longer bar settlers from the unceded territory west of the reservation boundary and if some go over the boundary into the black hills general sherman understood the president and the interior department would wink at it for the present These so-called settlers, of course, were interested in the Black Hills, not the land to the west.

The new policy meant simply that prospectors could now enter the Black Hills without military interference.

Shortly afterward, in December 1875, the government moved against the non-treaties.

He is armed with a .45 caliber Springfield carbine, a single-shot breech loader, and a .45 Colt revolver, both models, 1873.

He was authorized a saber, but usually left it behind on campaign because he rarely got close enough to the enemy to use it.

Items in inset illustration, carbine and carbine sling, saber, .45 Colt revolver and cartridge belt, shelter half, knife and sheath, overcoat, picket pin and lariat, sidelines, feed-back canteen haversack tin cup saddle-bags poncho forage sack sidebar custer's principal subordinates were major marcus a reno and captain frederick w while neither officer cared much for the other they were linked first by their mutual dislike of custer and then by the necessity of defending their conduct in the battle of the little bighorn both men considered custer highly overrated as a military leader and laid the blame for the defeat squarely on his shoulders sidebar lieutenant william w cook thirty year old canadian soldier of fortune was the seventh cavalry's adjutant he was a strong custer supporter and one of the ablest and most efficient members of the regiment he scribbled the last message from custer on a page torn from his memorandum book and died beside his chief an hour later on what is now known as custer hill sidebar custer family casualties the custer family lost five of its members in the battle of the little bighorn the three brothers george thomas and boston their nephew harry reed and their brother-in-law james calhoun who was married to their sister margaret tom custer a two-time medal-of-honor winner commanded company c and died beside his older brother boston custer a civilian guide and harry reid who had come along expecting to see the seventh cavalry win another quick victory were killed near by and lieutenant calhoun commanding company l perished with his troops on the hill that now bears his name end of sidebars End of section 2b.

Part 2 of Custer's Last Battle of Custer Battlefield by Robert M. Utley.

Well, at least I've seen a prime example of what a soft policy brings about.

The hostiles move up here from the 7th Cavalry area.

Undoubtedly, they rest, repair equipment, and go back to take up the attack again.

Some of them do, some of them don't.

We'll find you something to eat.

Was I a...

I'd stay out of the 7th Cavalry territory for a while.

The high soldier is going to be moving that way.

Fatally bayoneted by a U.S. soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson.

He was among the Sioux leaders who defeated George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.

which was the biggest defeat of any U.S. Calvary, 265 members of that Calvary were killed, including Custer.

And then they, let's see here, I think it was Colonel Nelson Miles pursued Crazy Horse, tracked him down, and then in 1877, Crazy Horse surrendered to him.

refused to sign and adhere to the Treaty of Fort Laramie and lived outside the Great Sioux Reservation.

In 1874, the United States government dispatched the Seventh Cavalry to the Black Hills inside the Dakota Territory.

Their mission was to scout for a suitable location for a new fort, but also to search the area for natural resources.

Specifically, they were to investigate a rumor that there might be gold in the Black Hills.

Where was he stationed, Major?

He was with the 7th Cavalry at Fort Lincoln.

Oh, up in the Dakotas.

Yeah, and for some reason they think he headed south.

He won't?

No.

It seems that the 7th Cavalry needs every man available.

They're leaving Fort Lincoln on an expedition against the Sioux in the Northern Cheyenne

Though not technically a fully automatic weapon, its tremendous rate of fire kept enemy soldiers huddled in their trenches during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864, and improved models devastated America's enemies on the Great Plains and in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War.

Interestingly, General George Armstrong Custer refused to bring Gatling guns along during the 7th Cavalry Regiment's attack at the Little Bighorn River in 1876, which turned out disastrously for the Americans.

Other nations copied Gatling's designs, and hand-cranked artillery remained a staple of Western militaries until the First World War.

Newer inventions eventually replace the Gatling gun in widespread use, though fully automatic variants continue in service on attack helicopters and the A-10 Thunderbolt fighter bomber, personally my favorite military aircraft of all time, and in action movies like Predator.