US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Photograph of the third page of a letter from Captain Eugene Joseph Harrington to his sister Anna A. Harrington of Boston. The letter is dated July 21, 1876 and details his regiment's activities in the Black Hills War as well as his opinion of the Battle of Little Big Horn. For the remaining pages of this letter see Photo IDs uclamss_1429_13992 through uclamss_1429_13995 This photograph is related to the article, “ERROR LAID TO CUSTER: Old Letter Tells of Massacre Captain in Indian Campaign Asserts General Blundered Attacking Redskins,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 1936: 12 Portions of this letter appear in a small photo spread titled, “Indian Attack Called Blunder,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 1936: 12 Text from newspaper caption: Frayed and yellowed by age, a letter of which the above is a photostatic copy, added yesterday to the collection of Harold Lloyd, film actor, contains views of the day on the maneuver which ended with the death of Gen. Custer. “Height of madness” was the comment of Eugene Joseph Harrington, Indian fighter of 1876, on the attack by Gen. Custer on an encampment of well-armed Sioux, noted as capable foemen. [Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 1936: 12] Text from negative sleeve: 4781-- letter written in 1876 by soldier in Colorado 4/6/36 [stamped:] APR 14 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13994 ark:/21198/zz002j7h3n
Language
English
Subject
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 Black Hills War, 1876-1877 Sioux Nation Military officers--American--Wyoming Territory Crook, George, 1829-1890 Harrington, Eugene Joseph, 1844-1914 Harrington, Anna A., b. 1858 Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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