Others argue fault for the defeat should also lay with Frederick Benteen, the other officer who headed the third company Custer, after Reno and Custer’s companies. Some say Benteen was also near the battlefield when the fight between Custer and the natives began. In the book, To Hell With Honor: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Larry Sklenar, it is said that when Benteen believed Custer to be heading “into battle without him, Benteen became frustrated and angry, and it would now take a very special invitation to move him faster than a walk.” Moreover, it was said that some of Benteen’s companions believed “Custer had sent the captain off to the left in order to keep him out of the fight…” This account would lead some to believe that perhaps
