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Article: KENTUCKIANS FOUGHT, DIED AT LITTLE BIGHORN.(Kentucky Life)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- August 25, 2003
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Byline: Berry Craig
CROW AGENCY, Mont. -- The battle of the Little Bighorn went down in history as "Custer's Last Stand."
But among the slain was the grandson and namesake of a revered Kentucky statesman. Second Lt. John Jordan Crittenden is buried close to where he was killed.
Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and all 209 men under his direct command, including Crittenden, died in a hail of Indian bullets and arrows on June 25, 1876. An arrow shattered the 22-year-old Crittenden's glass eye.
The "handsome, manly boy" probably was dead already, according to John A. Doerner, chief historian at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National ...
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