Custer's Last Stand

Imagine yourself on a battlefield fighting 2000 armed to the teeth Indians with only 650 men on your side, trying to win what you know will be your last battle (Donovan 188). “Whoosh!” An arrow whizzes right past you and hits your fellow soldier. That’s what it was like in the Battle of Little Bighorn, where the Lakota, Sioux, and Cheyenne killed George Armstrong Custer, a very brave general, on June 25, 1876 (Connell 1). Previously, Custer and his men were actively involved in genocide against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians for years.
The Indians were outraged over the continued intrusions of whites onto their sacred lands, so they defiantly left their reservations (Connell 1). That really upset Custer because he had no intention of allowing the Indians to scatter. He decided to attack them, once and for all. But what he did not know was that the battle he was about to fight was going to be one of the biggest tragedies of that time. General George McClellan had appointed...