Walter Camp (1859–1925)

This pioneering oral history project consists of extracts of notes from interviews that Walter Camp conducted in the early 1900s among the survivors of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Overall, they are very helpful to getting a better view of the battlefield becaise of the unique perspectives that they provided. However, they are not transcripts of his interviews, but notes. This is important because Camp summarized comments from those he interviewed. In some cases, he seemed fixated with several details that popped up across various interviews, such as Keough's horse Comanche and Captain Benteen's boot heel. A couple of takeaways: 1) there was signficiant discord among the officer corps in the 7th cavalry 2) Camp did not shy away from graphic depictions of violence and the mutilation of the wounded 3) these personal accounts provide a very human perspective to the battle.… (plus d'informations)