Custer's Last Stand

George Armstrong Custer was a major general in the Union Army during the Civil War. In prosecuting the Great Sioux War he came across a big Indian camp on the Little Big Horn River. He saw the opportunity to have a big victory so he decided to attack. Unfortunately for Custer the battle went disastrously and almost half of his men were killed or wounded. On Custer's side 268 men were killed whereas the leaders of the Indian forces including Sitting Bull and Blackout's Cousin Crazy Horse only had 31 men killed So this was a decisive defeat.