General George A.Custer Compared to One of His Soldiers, Frank Finkel

The old west holds many secrets that we will never find a answer to. The Battle of Little Big Horn is one of those secrets. Sure we know that General George Armstrong Custer and his company were massacred there, but there has always been stories about survivors. This paper is going to compare the similarities and differences between the legendary George A. Custer and one of his men, Frank Finkel, who is believed to be one of the survivors of the great battle.
Before I researched Custer, I believed him to be a great man who was viciously ambushed by Indians for no apparent reason. …