A Dispatch to Custer, The Tragedy Of Lieutenant SECOND EDITION 2023

By Randy Johnson

A Dispatch To Custer tells the story of Lieutenant Lyman Kidder, a young soldier sent on a mission in 1867 to deliver orders to Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer. En route a band of Sioux and Cheyenne ambushed Kidder and his party, killing all eleven soldiers and an Indian scout. Custer discovered their mutilated bodies a few days later near modern -day Goodland, Kansas, and ordered they be buried in a common grave. When Kidders father was notified of his sons death he began the difficult task of recovering his sons remains. Told mainly through the letters of Kidders family and military colleagues, Johnson and Allans account conveys a rare intimacy, while the authors careful analysis and insightful interpretation fill out the story.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1737210010
• ISBN13: 9781737210016
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Erin House Books PO Box 785, Palatine Il. 60067
• Length: 206 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"