Custer’s Other Regiment

Samuel J. Crawford organized the 19th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry to respond to Indian depravations that escalated in 1868. The volunteers hoped to engage in combat with tribes, like the 7th Cavalry did, shown charging into Black Kettle’s village at daylight on November 27 in this Harper’s Weekly illustration published on December 19. They instead learned another way to win a war.– Illustration Courtesy Library of Congress; all