The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-08-03

Their Eshumation and Removal b. Col.
sheridan from the Battle Ground.
Mourn or THE LITTLE BIC HoRN
RIVER, July 6.-Col. M. Sheridan, with
certain military and other friends;
Troop j, Of the 9TH Cavalry, Capt.
Nowlan commanding G. j. Barronefte
and G.. Herndon White and Curley, who
were with Custer; Half Yellow Face,
who was with Reno, and several Crow
Indian scouts, with a train Of OK wagons,
left here AZ noon Of the LIST inst, for the
Custer field. They travelled twelve
miles up the west side Of the river and
camped. Early the next morning Bar
rsnette, with most of the scouts, press
ed rapidly up some five miles TO the old
village site, then six miles across il, over
immense quantities Of lodge poles,
camp kettle pals, pots and other camp
equipage-much Of which was broken
and destroyed by Gen. Terry after the
Indian retreat-and into ReRo's valley;
thence they filed some ten miles above,
returning again along the line Of the In
dians' retreat to Clusters valley and his
elevated but silent resting place. Mean
while the main party had marched to
near the center Of the village site, some
six miles long, and camped at 10 a. M.
Thence in squads they passed over Gus
ter's valley on the west side Of the
stream, and the now deep, rapid ford
and the line of retreat, and all united at
Custer's grave, at the extreme end and
highest point Of a broken. t~rceless ridge.
Gradually riding a mile and . half
from this and then some feet down the
Western slope they found, partially un-
earthed, all that remains of the gallant
Custer. Beside and below lay his
brother, Capt. Thos. Custer, and other
officers and friends, surrounded by the
partially exposed and bleaching bones
Of the soldiers and their horses. Regi-
ments of clothing and shoes and shnd
hoofs of horses. Although the remains
Of Gen. Caster and most of his friends
there, as elsewhere, had evidently been
disfgured by the coyotes or savages, and
probably both, and many, If not the
most, of the skulls there and through
out the fields were smashed TO frag-
ments, mangled or missing, still what
was decided to be and probably were
the main portions of the bones Of Gen.
Custer and his two brothers were Sc
cured Neither Reed nor the officers
who fell with him and Reno were found.
The remains were carefully and sor-
rowfully gathered, wrapped, and then
packed with grass cut from Clusters
valley, placed in ten rough boxes not
unlike rough collins and brought away.
The remains of Lieut.. Porter and some
of his men have been found. Though
the bodies Of Lieut.. Mcintosh and DR..
DeWolf were discovered and buried last
wear, little, il any, portion Of their re-
mains or Of Lieut.. Hodgson's could
now be found
BY request Of his esteemed father, the
gallant Lieut.. Crittcnden sleeps where
he fell, with his boys around him, await
ing Gabriel's reyeille, but for the guild
ance Of his friends, his name, rank, ETC.,
are rudely carved upon a hsadpost.
Another board shows where Capt. Keogh
fell, and where his men sleep. There
is also a rude inscription at the head Of
each Of the Others, but most Of the sol
diers, either singly or in groups, have a
stake driven where they rest.
After the duty Of sprinkling mother
earth upon the fallen braves and the re-
ceremonies were finished, the
and cortege slowly and silently
wendell its way from the lofty cactus
desert to the deep valleys Of cottonwood
and willow that fringed the river of this
Indian battle land. -New York Herald.