Home > Back to Search Results >
Follow-up to the Custer Massacre...
Follow-up to the Custer Massacre...
Item # 704087
July 15, 1876
SPRINGFIELD DAILY REPUBLICAN, Massachusetts, July 15, 1876 Page 5 includes: "The Custer Battle - Sitting Bull Reported Among the Killed".
'The report includes in part; "It is reported from Fort Lincoln that Sitting Bull was among the Indian chiefs killed; also a Whitman named Milburn, Sitting Bull's chief adviser...The wounded are recovering...It is thought Sitting Bull's band obtained nearly $20,000, the soldiers having just been paid...writing from the scene of the fight contradicts the statement that Gen. Custer's body was mutilated; it was his brother Tom...It makes one heart-sick to look over the battle-ground and see the poor fellows, some of the with their entrails cut out, others with their eyes dug out and hearts laid across their face..." with much more.
This is an account of a follow-up visit to the scene of the Custer massacre of June 25.
Page 5 has an even lengthier article: "The Indian Question - From the Indian & Agency Standpoint - A Fresh Plan for Getting the Black Hills from Them".
Eight pages, ragged at the bottom margin but not affecting the Custer content, disbinding indents at the blank spine.
Category: The Old West
Add to Cart
