Major General Alfred H. Terry is primarily known (by very few people) as the commander of the 1876 Yellowstone Expedition against the Sioux Indians that resulted in the disastrous defeat at the Little Bighorn, costing George Armstrong Custer and over 200 of his men their lives. But Terry was a stalwart field commander in the American Civil War and would go on to be the only non-West-Point general of the Indian Wars.In this short but very interesting...
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