After his victory at Washita, a buckskin-clad Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer felt undaunted in his role of frontier Indian fighter. The Seventh Cavalry’s charging call of “Garryowen,” however, would soon become a northward death march for Custer and his men. The Irish ballad speaks well of the general’s rash overconfidence: “Our hearts so stout have got us fame / For soon ’tis known from whence we came / Where’er we go they fear the name / of Garryowen in glory.” And no pla
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