AUTHOR'S NOTES xi
PROLOGUE: A Good Day to Die 3
PART I: APPROACH
CHAPTER ONE: The Divine Injunction
9
CHAPTER TWO: "The Boy General of the Golden Lock"
38
CHAPTER THREE: Patriots
69
CHAPTER FOUR: Outside the States
86
CHAPTER FIVE: Belknap's Anaconda
101
CHAPTER SIX: "Submitt to Uncl Sam or Kill the 7 Hors"
116
PART II: ADVANCE
CHAPTER SEVEN: "The Hide and Seek for Sitting Bull"
139
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Fruits of Insubordination
156
CHAPTER NINE: The Seventh Rides Out
172
CHAPTER TEN: The Trail to the Greasy Grass
185
CHAPTER ELEVEN: On the Jump
200
PART III: ATTACK
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Charge
225
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "The Savior of the Seventh"
250
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Soldiers Falling
261
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Hill
279
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: "Death Was All Around Us"
285
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Rescue
300
PART IV: AFTERMATH
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: "All the World Has Gone"
317
CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Lost Captain
344
CHAPTER TWENTY: For the Honor of the Regiment
359
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Ghosts Dancing
383
Acknowledgments 399
Notes 403
Bibliography 487
Index 513