What is your view of Custer?

[Rsmyth]

I second Rick's opinion. When it came to his Indian policy, Custer took the phrase "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" to heart. At the battle of the Washita, he murdered women and children, shooting the chief and his wife in the back as they tried to surrender waving an American flag, Then when he saw other tribes gathering, he took more women and children hostage to use as human shields and hightailed it out of there. As Wild Bill said, leaving Elliot and the rest to be surrounded and killed. Elliot had a friend in the 7th, Frederick Benteen who never forgave Custer for leaving the troop. This also led to suspicion of Benteen not coming to Custer's immediate aid at the Little Big Horn.