Editing Battle of the Little Bighorn (section)

==Casualties==

===Native American warriors===
Estimates of Native American casualties have differed widely, from as few as 36 dead (from Native American listings of the dead by name) to as many as 300.<ref>Hardorff, ''Hokayhey!'', p. 13.</ref> Lakota chief [[Red Horse (Lakota chief)|Red Horse]] told Col. W. H. Wood in 1877 that the Native Americans suffered 136 dead and 160 wounded during the battle.<ref>Graham, Col. W. A. ''The Custer Myth''. NY, Bonanza Books, 1953, p. 60.</ref> In 1881, Red Horse told Dr. C. E. McChesney the same numbers but in a series of drawings done by Red Horse to illustrate the battle, he drew only sixty figures representing Lakota and Cheyenne casualties. Of those sixty figures, only thirty-some are portrayed with a conventional Plains Indian method of indicating death. In the last 140 years, historians have been able to identify multiple Indian names pertaining to the same individual, which has greatly reduced previously inflated numbers. Today a list of positively known casualties exists that lists 99 names, attributed and consolidated to 31 identified warriors.<ref>{{cite web|last=Thomas|first=Rodney G.|title=Indian Casualties of the Little Big Horn Battle|url=http://www.littlebighorn.info/Articles/IndianCasualties.pdf|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403040007/http://www.littlebighorn.info/Articles/IndianCasualties.pdf|archive-date=April 3, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

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|File:Red-Horse-cabinet-card.jpg|Red Horse
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|File:Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. 0200.png|Plate XLIV
|File:Lakota casualites.jpg|Plate XLV
|File:Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1888) (19363409875).jpg|Indians leaving the Battlefield Plate XLVIII
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===Native American noncombatants===
Six unnamed Native American women and four unnamed children are known to have been killed at the beginning of the battle during Reno's charge. Among them were two wives and three children of the Hunkpapa Leader Pizi (Gall).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gall |website=nps.gov |publisher=National Park Service |url=https://www.nps.gov/libi/learn/historyculture/gall.htm |access-date=March 16, 2024}}</ref>

===7th Cavalry===
The 7th Cavalry suffered 52 percent casualties: 16 officers and 242 troopers killed or died of wounds, 1 officer and 51 troopers wounded. Every soldier of the five companies with Custer was killed (except for some [[Crow scouts]] and several troopers that had left that column before the battle or as the battle was starting). Among the dead were Custer's brothers Boston and Thomas, his brother-in-law James Calhoun, and his nephew Henry Reed.

In 1878, the army awarded 24 [[Medal of Honor|Medals of Honor]] to participants in the fight on the bluffs for bravery, most for risking their lives to carry water from the river up the hill to the wounded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/indianwars.html|publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]]|title=Medal of Honor Recipients: Indian Wars Period|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803232814/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/indianwars.html|archive-date=August 3, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Few on the non-Indian side questioned the conduct of the enlisted men, but many questioned the tactics, strategy and conduct of the officers. Indian accounts spoke of soldiers' panic-driven flight and suicide by those unwilling to fall captive to the Indians. While such stories were gathered by [[Thomas Bailey Marquis]] in a book in the 1930s, it was not published until 1976 because of the unpopularity of such assertions.<ref name="cheyenne">{{cite web |last =Liberty |first =Dr. Margot |url = http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/cheyenneprimacy.htm |title = Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876 |publisher = Friends of the Little Bighorn|access-date =January 13, 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080124135151/http://www.friendslittlebighorn.com/cheyenneprimacy.htm| archive-date= January 24, 2008 <!--DASHBot-->|url-status = live}}</ref> Although soldiers may have believed captives would be tortured, Indians usually killed men outright and took as captive for adoption only young women and children.<ref name="cheyenne" /> Indian accounts also noted the bravery of soldiers who fought to the death.<ref>{{cite web |author=Running Dog |url=http://www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/he_dog2_little_big_horn.html |title=He Dog's Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn #2 |publisher=Astonisher.com |date=1920-08-19 |access-date=2012-03-15 |url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118221821/http://www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/he_dog2_little_big_horn.html |archive-date=January 18, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

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|File:Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. 0400.png|Cavalrymen and two Indian Government scouts[?]
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|File:Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. 0600.png|Cavalrymen and dead cavalry horses
|File:Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. 0700.png|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/06/24/battle-greasy-grass-140-years-later-complete-story-18-drawings-164918|title=The Battle of the Greasy Grass 140 Years Later: The Complete Story in 18 Drawings|last=leeanne|date=June 24, 2016|work=indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com|access-date=October 19, 2016|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026182510/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/06/24/battle-greasy-grass-140-years-later-complete-story-18-drawings-164918|archive-date=October 26, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
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===Civilians killed (armed and embedded within the Army)===
* [[Boston Custer]]: brother of George and Thomas, forager for the 7th
* [[Mark Kellogg (reporter)|Mark Kellogg]]: reporter
* Frank Mann: ex-cavalry soldier and civilian packer. Killed in Reno battle
* [[Henry Armstrong Reed]]: Custer's nephew, herder for the 7th
* Charles Reynolds, ex-soldier and civilian guide