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Custer's
Cookhouse & Bar is themed in depth on the Battle of the Little
Bighorn where 'General' Custer and 265 of his men were wiped out
by the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in 1876.
People are intrigued by the battle and wonder how Custer, one of
the top generals of the Civil War, could have been defeated by "untutored"
nomads. Americans have read more about this relatively small engagement
than any other incident in their entire history, including the Civil
War, 2 World Wars, and Vietnam. The enigma is enhanced no doubt
by the fact that there were no white survivors.
Ireland played a large role in American military history. After
the Civil War, where 200,000 Irishmen served on the Union side and
some 45,000 on the Confederate side, many sons of Erin later found
themselves in the frontier army. When Custer and his 600 men rode
into the valley of the Little Bighorn on that fateful Sunday in
June, 1876, nearly 25% of his army were Irish born. 35
Irishmen died there, including that Soldier of Fortune &
Papal Army hero, Captain Myles Walter Keogh from Co. Carlow.
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