Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-08-04
GEN. CUSTER'S REMAINS.
Their ELIMINATION and Removal by Col.
sheridan from the Battle Ground.
MOUTH OF THE LITTLE Big HORN

Their ELIMINATION and Removal by Col.
Sheridan from the Battle Ground.
MOUTH OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN
RIVER, July Col. NJ Sheridan, with
certain military and other friends;
Troop j, of the 9TH Cavalry, Capt.
Nowlan commanding; CD. Barronette
and G. Herndon White and Curley, who
were with Custer; Half Yellow Face,
who was with Reno, and several Grow
Indian scouts, with a train of OK wagons,
left here at noon of the LIST inst, for the
Custer field. They Travelled twelve
miles up the west side of the river and
camped. Early next morning Bar
ronette, with most Of the scouts, press
ed rapidly up some five miles to the old
village site, then six miles across it, 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 Reno's valley;
thence they filed some ten miles above,
returning again along the line of the In
dams 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 usited at
Clusters grave, at the extreme end and
highest point of a broken, trceless ridge.
Gradually riding mile and half
from this and then some feet down the
Western slope they found, partially I'M
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 shod
hoofs of horses. Although the remains
of Gen. Custer 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
ont the fields We're 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-
gathered, wrapped, and then
packed with grass cut from Custer's
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 DIR.
DE Wolf were discovered and buried last
year, little. if any, portion of their re-
mains or of Lieut.. Hodgson's could
now be found
BY request Of his esteemed father, the
gallant Lieut.. Crittenden sleeps where
he fell, with his boys around him, await
ing Gabriel's reveille, but for the guild
lnce of his friends, his name, rank, etc,
Are rndely carved upon 4 hoadpost.
Another board shows where Capt. Keogh
ell, and where his men sleep. There
S also a rude inscription at the head of
Zach Of the others, but most of the SOL
Tiers, either singly or in groups, have a
take driven where they rest.
After the duty of sprinkling mother
,arth upon the fallen braves and the re-
igious ceremonies We're finished, the
rain and cortege slowly and silently
vended It's way from the lefty cactus
lesert 70 the deep valleys of cottonwood
md willow that fringed the river of this
indian battle land -Nev Yori, Herald.