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Article: Custer Battlefield: Chapter 4 Custer Battlefield Today
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Volume: Handbook 132
Date:1988
Chapter 4 Custer Battlefield Today
From Battlefield to National Monument
Almost overnight the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
became a
national shrine and tourist attraction. Its care fell to the Army,
which in
1877 built Fort Custer 15 miles to the north. A year after the battle,
Captain Keogh's old Company 1 of the 7th Cavalry, now reconstituted,
returned
to comb the battlefield and exhume the bodies of Custer and 11 other
officers
and two civilians for reinterment elsewhere. In accordance with Custer'
s
wishes, his widow had his remains reburied at the United States Military
Academy at West Point, New ...
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