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Monday Mar 15, 2021
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
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Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series!
Our next lecture will be: "Marcus Reno in the Valley of the Little Big Horn: An Opposing View" given by Frederic C. Wagner III
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Talk Synopsis:
For more than one hundred thirty-five years, the actions of Major Marcus A. Reno?s command in the Little Big Horn valley fighting were fairly well established until The Strategy of Defeat at the Little Big Horn was published. Using all known first-hand accounts a new picture formed. Reno in the Valley inserts a different and more accurate perspective.
Frederic C. Wagner III Curriculum Vitae
Graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Spent ten years as a Regular Army officer and an officer in the New York Army National Guard. Former paratrooper, Army ranger, and Special Forces-trained psychological operations specialist. Decorated Vietnam combat veteran and company commander. On-the-ground commander of the first infiltration convoys of the Vietnam War. Wrote the divisional Standing Operating Procedures (SOP) manual for convoy operations in a guerilla warfare environment, 1st Infantry Division, Di-An, Vietnam, 1966 ? 1967. Left the Regular Army as a captain. Spent twenty-four years on Wall Street as a senior executive, manager, and government securities and commodities broker. Former Associate Member, Western Writers of America; member, editorial board, Little Big Horn Associates, Inc.?s, Research Review since 2009.
Books
- Participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 2nd edition, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, NC, 2015.
- The Strategy of Defeat at the Little Big Horn, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, NC, 2014.
Note?The above book won the 2018 Little Big Horn Associates? Jay D. Smith Award for making a strong contribution to the field of Custeriana.
- Participants in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, NC, 2011. 1st edition.
Note?The above book received the highest ranking??Excellent??in the two-volume set, ?Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn: A Bibliography,? compiled by Michael O?Keefe. Norman, OK: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2012.
Articles?
- ?A Deadly Delay? or Was It?? Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association, Greasy Grass, Volume 32, May 2016.
- ?Trains Along the Yellowstone,? Custer Association of Great Britain, The Crow?s Nest, Spring/Summer/Autumn 2015, Volume 15.
- ?Impaled on the Horns of Keogh?s Dilemma,? Little Big Horn Associates, Research Review, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2015.
- ?Perception versus Intention: Case A,? Little Big Horn Associates, Newsletter, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, September 2015.
- ?Shaving the Dilemma?s Horns?Curley and the Scouts at the Little Bighorn,? Little Big Horn Associates, Research Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2014.
Note?The above article won the 2015 Little Big Horn Associates? Lawrence A. Frost Award for the most outstanding article written about the events at the Little Big Horn.
- ?Boston Custer and the Reno Dilemma,? Little Big Horn Associates, Newsletter, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, June 2014.
- ?Marcus Reno, Time, & the Little Bighorn Valley,? Little Big Horn Associates, Research Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2013.
- ?3,411 Revisited,? Little Big Horn Associates, Newsletter, Vol. XXII, No. 1, March 2013.
- ?Godfrey?s Lightning,? Little Big Horn Associates, Research Review, Vol. XXIV, 2010.
- ?Gray and Blue,? Little Big Horn Associates, Newsletter, April 2010.
- ?Benteen Meets Lee,? Little Big Horn Associates, Newsletter, Vol. XLIII, No. 4, May 2009.
- ?From A Different View to the Same Kill,? Little Big Horn Associates, Research Review, Vol. XXII, No. 2, September 2008.
- ?Frederic Francis Gerard: A Questionable Cause and an Unforeseen Effect,? Little Big Horn Associates, Research Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Winter 2007.
Note?The above article won the 2007 Little Big Horn Associates? Lawrence A. Frost Memorial Award for the most outstanding article written about the events at the Little Big Horn.
- ?Regiment! ? Forward into line? Charge!? Little Big Horn Associates, Newsletter, Vol. XL, No. 6, July 2006.
- ?A Divisive Division,? Little Big Horn Associates, Research Review, Vol. XX, No. 1, Winter 2006.
Note?The above article received a rare ?Recommended? review in the two-volume set, ?Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn: A Bibliography,? compiled by Michael O?Keefe. Norman, OK: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2012.
Reviews?
- Book review, peer: Adolfo Ovies, The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, Volume 1, Savas Beatie Publishing, 2020.
- Book review, Montana The Magazine of Western History, Winter 2016, Volume 66, Number 4, ?Bang, bang? You Broke the Law,? a review of Charles E. Wright?s, Law at Little Big Horn.
Film Documentaries?
- Co-writer, Custer?s Strategy of Defeat, as listed on the IMDb site.
Presentations?
- Saint Paul?s Church National Historic Site, Mount Vernon, New York, ?Myths of the Little Big Horn,? August 17, 2019.
- Edgehill Retirement Community, Stamford, Connecticut, ?George and Elizabeth Custer, Bronxville, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn,? October 21, 2016.
- Battlefield tour and lecture, Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument, Montana, ?The Casper Platoon,? 173rd Airborne Brigade, Vietnam Veterans, June 22, 2016.
- Crestwood Historical Society, Crestwood Library, Crestwood, New York. ?George and Libbie Custer, the Little Big Horn, and New York,? April 16, 2011.
