I Fought with Custer - by Charles Windolph (Paperback)

About the Book

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Scribner, 1954, c1947.

Book Synopsis

Sergeant Charles Windolph was the last white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn when he described it nearly seventy years later. A six-year veteran of the Seventh Cavalry, Windolph fought in Benteen's troop on that fatal Sunday and recalls in vivid detail the battle that wiped out Custer's command. Equally vivid is the evidence marshaled by Frazier and Robert Hunt on events leading up to the battle and on the investigation that followed.

Review Quotes

"In no book of comparable size can the reader get a better understanding of what happened that red Sabbath on the Little Bighorn, and how, and why."--New York Times

"It is the kind of book that ought to be on the shelf of every student of American Western or military history."--Paul I. Wellman, New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review

About the Author

In a new foreword to the Bison Book edition, Neil Mangum, historian at the Custer Battlefield National Monument, discusses Windolph's contribution to the Custer literature.