Friday, June 1, 2012
Custer's Last Stand
This picture was taken off Interstate 90 near Crow Agency at Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument, Montana. On this knoll Lt Colonel George Armstrong Custer and approximately 41 men make a stand on June 25 and 26, 1876 against the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians. Approximately 10 men including Custer, his brother Tom, and Lt William Cooke, are found in the vicinity of the present 7th Cavalry Memorial shown in the middle of the photo. The white markers show the original burial sites of the soldiers, including Custers. Custer's remains are reinterred at the U.S Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. I don't remember this Memorial at all back 40 some years ago, do you guys?
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retracing steps and old memories...
ReplyDeleteMy memory is as faded as my jeans. :-) (No)
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