glaring mistake
Shooting of Mulligan-no American deserter executed between the Civil war and 1945.
shareActually, Custer did have a soldier shot for desertion shortly after the end of the Civil War while commanding the Third Cavalry in Texas, and about half-a-dozen soldiers of the Seventh during General Winfield Hancock's "Show of Strength" Campaign of the summer of 1867, Mulligan's execution being a composite of both of these incidents in a film that Professor Gregory J.W. Urwin, widely recognized as the leading authority today on Custer's Civil War record (chronicled by Greg quite readably in his "Custer Victorious"), agrees with me is 78% historically accurate.
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