Diary of the Little Bighorn ~ Godfrey

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From the Western and Civil War research/reference library of Jerry Crandall

Diary of the Little Big Horn 

by Lt. Edward Settle Godfrey, edited with an introduction and notes by Edgar and Jane Stewart

Condition; good, some shelf wear on hard cover

The Champoeg Press, 1957, 1st edition

Here is the field diary of Lt. Edward Settle Godfrey, Commanding Co. K, 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer in the Sioux encounter at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. His diary covers the period from Mary 17, 1876 when the expedition commanded by Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry left Ft. Abraham Lincoln, Bismarck, Dakota Territory until the return of the battered regiment a few days after September 24, 1876 to the same place. A colrful, detailed first hand account by one who was there.