Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — Where Custer Fell. [ARTICLE]

Where Custer Fell.

New York Mull and Express. Gen. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), who has just returned from a Western-tour, gives an interesting account of his visit to the battlefield of the Little Big Horn, where General Custer and his men met their death in the ever-memorable massacre. When he was on the field before, a few days after the battle, it was studded with wooden stakes showing where the soldiers fell. Now those stakes are replaced by hundreds of little marble headstones, each marking the grave of a soldier who lies exafctlv where his remains were found. What impressed Cody was the fact that the men died in little clusters, and the largest cluster of all, to which all the others , seemed tributary, was that around the Custer monument, showing how the men ha 1 rallied around him and died at his feet.