• mkwt@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Earlier in his Army career, Custer attended the Confederate surrender at Appomattox (as a Union officer). He decided to keep the white dish towel that Lee used as a flag of truce (aka the true last and final Confederate flag), as a souvenir. Custer’s wife bequeathed that dish towel to the Smithsonian quite a bit later.

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      7 hours ago

      the funny thing about Custer is that he was warned about the ambush but his hubris was just too much

      also it is rumored among those that have heard direct stories from people that were there was that it was a woman that made the killing blow on him and they probably scalped and then dismembered him and most of his men, and thats why nobody found him