Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — An Old Army Horse. [ARTICLE]

An Old Army Horse.

We are not aware that the Government has any old horse in its keeping such as “Ernst” describes. There was a horse named Comanche, the most celebrated in the United States, which was kept for a- long time after he ceased to be useful, but he died Thursday, November 5, 1891, at Fort Riley, Mo. He had been long useful in the cavalry service. He was 45 years old, and was the only living thing that escaped the massacre at the battle of Little Big Horn, where General Custer and his command were killed. He was one of the original mount of the Seventh Cavalry, which regiment was organized in 1866, and had been in almost every battle with the Indian service. After, the battle of Little Big Horn he was found covered with wounds, riderless and saddleless, some distance from the scene of the massacre. He was taken taken in charge by Captain RoWlan and sent to Fort Riley, where for fourteen years he was not subject to bridle, and was in charge of the Seventh Cavalry. He died of aid age. His skin, it is understood, was stuffed and mounted, and kept in the museum of the Kansas State University.—Brooklyn Eagle Lord Napier won the Abyssinian War in 1867 without a single revere.