I do not claim to be an authority. I can only opine on what I've read and there's a lot of different stories. The book "Citizen Sherman" was pretty good but you never what the author's perspective was. He was a pretty complicated man also ineffective after the war. I think his main claim to fame was his brutal march to the sea.

Was it true that the Sioux squaws cut Custer's ears off and cut out his tongue?