The name George Custer is etched in the annals of U.S. and Montana history for the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. Less well known is that Custer may have been the man who won the Civil War. The incident, known mostly only to Civil War buffs, occurred at the critical climax of that [...]
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Union nurse’s opinion: ‘The war was awful’
March 27th, 2012 
javal Sarah Miranda Strong Vorus, an angel on the Civil War battlefields, was a most remarkable woman. She was a wife, mother and nurse who came up the Missouri River by steamboat to the Sun River valley. When she died at age 102, she became the oldest Civil War “veteran” to pass away in Montana. Read [...]
After war service, black soldier struck silver in Montana
October 31st, 2011 javal When Col. Robert Gould Shaw and his 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, the first African-American regiment raised in the North during the Civil War, paraded through Boston Common on their way to war, Pvt. Joseph Meek marched in their ranks. Today, Pvt. Meek rests in Mayn Cemetery in White Sulphur Springs after a life of adventure [...]
Billings historian brings battlefields to life
August 18th, 2011 javal On a hot, nearly windless day in early August, Edwin C. Bearss is looking across the Little Bighorn River as he describes an early scene in the battle that would come to be known as Custer’s Last Stand. He is dressed in a ball cap, two T-shirts and a pair of stained khaki pants held [...]