Custer's Last Stand

Custer’s Last Stand
The battlefield is quite unique and a tribute to the blunders of bad leadership and not relying on the information you have but believing you know better and trying to make a name for yourself (letting your ego surpass your intelligence).
Custer was last in his class at West Point but a pretty good Civil War military leader. The orders came from President Grant to move the Indian Sioux and Arapahoe by any means necessary onto their reservations.
The Indians had earlier been given much of South Dakota and Montana as reservations but as the settlers expanded westward these treaties were not adhered to. Especially in the Billings to the area west of Butte where a new trail was set which went right through their traditional hunting grounds.
The Indians also united the Sioux, and Arapaho nations at the Little Big Horne with Chief Crazy Horse and Chief Sitting Bull and one of the other tribes. This meant that there were around 8,000 Indians at this encampment when Custer arrived with only a total of 600 men.
Custer made several blunders first to add speed he left behind any artillery and a gattling gun because they needed wheels or wagons. Next separating his forces, he took one of his columns one way and left Capt Remo to attack the Indians in another area. His supplies or ammunition became bogged down so he also left that behind to try to catch up with him later. Lastly, he did not listen to his Indian Crow scouts who told him that the Indian encampment was too large and he did not even have enough bullets to kill all of them.
Lastly Custer attacked too soon. He was to wait for a three pronged attack with forces led by other regiment strength forces. But he did not want to wait for the others to arrive.
The grave markers for the soldiers who died are placed where their bodies were found although the initial graves dug for them were very shallow and all were later exhumed and buried in a mass grave at Last Stand Hill where Custer is believed to have died, along with what was left of his column.
Capt Remo attacked and was repulsed immediately and lost much of his command while retreating. He was able to survive with his men and convinced the men carrying the supplies including ammunition that they could not reach Custer.
Two days later the relief column arrived and the Indians had left the area.
Tragedies befall those who do not heed history and leaders who do not gather intelligence correctly and let their egos interfere with their judgement.

1 Calvary soldier
2 Souix Warrier
3 Where the Indians were
4 Last Stand Hill
5 The marker for the Mass Grave