CUSTER MONUMENT. SURVIVORS OF SEVENTH CAVALRY WILL HOLD REUNION IN SOUTHERN MONTANA. CHICAGO, JUNE 8-27: - THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS THE GRANITE SHAFT WHICH WAS ERECTED BY THE GOVERNMENT ON THE SPOT WHERE CUSTER FELL. IT WILL BE RECALLED THAT CUSTER DIVIDED HIS FORCES AND PRESSED ON AHEAD IN COMMAND OF FIVE TROOPS ONLY. GEN. GODFREY WAS ORDERED TO MAKE A WIDE DETOUR AND SURPRISE THE INDIANS FROM THE REAR. THE DIVISION OF FORCES WAS FATAL, BUT, OTHERWISE, GODFREY AND HIS TROOP MIGHT HAVE MET THE SAME FATE THAT BEFEL CUSTER. CUSTER AT THE HEAD OF 260 CAVALRYMEN WAS SURROUNDED BY 5,000 INDIAN WARRIORS, AND NOT A MAN WAS LEFT TO TELL THE TALE. GEN. E. S. GODFREY WILL BE A CONSPICUOUS FIGURE IN SOUTHERN MONTANA, JUNE 25, AT THE ANNUAL REUNION OF THE SURVIV0RS.
[NP: 1926?]. Photograph by Underwood and Underwood of the "Granite Shaft" erected by the War Department in 1881 at the Little Big Horn, 6-1/2" x 8-3/4." Attached to original typed Underwood and Underwood description, on Underwood and Underwood stationery [repaired split along fold without loss]. Verso stamped with usual Underwood..... More
