Elizabeth Bacon Custer led the Seventh Cavalry in pursuit of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne who refused to be confined to the reservation system. After her husband's column was wiped out at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in June 1876, many in the press, Army, and government criticized Custer for blundering into a massacre. President Ulysses S. Grant publicly blamed Custer for the disaster. Fearing that her husband was to be made a scapegoat by history, Libbie launched a one-woman campaign to rehabilitate her husband's image. Her assistance to the author of the first Custer biography,
Growltiger's Last Stand played Gus in the filmed version, as well as time restraints. Sadly, it seems that though he'd once played Growltiger, he was not, in fact, able to do it again. The song does not appear in the 2016 Broadway revival. It was replaced by "The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles". Stephen Nathan, Eddie Korbich, Bronson N. Murphy (US National Tour), Matt Bartlett, Christopher E. Sidoli, Stephen Hanan, Ryan Bailey, Sal Minstretta, Nathan Morgan, Kelly Robertson, Bill Remps, Ethan Jones, George Breynard, Christopher Scott Growltiger's Last Stand Growltiger is a fictional character appearing in both T.S. Elliot's "Old