Note 52 — Part I Protecting the Frontier (continued 3)
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“... and at the last the brief reference to that episode when he (Custer) let glory of battle go, to save two white women!
“Has any one told you that the long line of soldiers and officers drawn up to witness the return of the two captives wept like women, and were not ashamed when the poor creatures came into the lines? Will you not write that story up some day, Dr. Brady? I will give you some addresses of officers who were eye-witnesses. They cannot seem to put such a picture before the public, but they do talk well.”—Private letter to me from the wife of an officer present on the occasion noted.