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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