The Importance of Being Wary of Your Government

General Custer was not at for Abraham Lincoln when we arrived there in late April 1876. Of course, that aroused a lot of talk and suspicion. When you jiggled all those rumors down, you got about this. We were soon to start a big expedition up to Yellowstone to round up the hostiles and drive them back to the reservations. If they would not go peacefully, we were to make good Indians out of them. This is just so typical of the military. There's politics, crazy politics in the military."