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Comanche the sole survivor of Custers last stand
Elmo Scott Watson recounts how Comanche the claybank sorrel survived the Little Big Horn battle and how later memory and deception surrounded Custers tragedy. It also notes Brig Gen Edward Godfrey the last surviving Custer troop commander and Grace Harrington the West Point postmaster linked to Custers tale.
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George Armstrong Custer
Custer
Little Big Horn River
Montana
Little Big Horn
Seventh Cavalry
Marcus A. Reno
Frederick W. Benteen
Thomas McDougal
Reno
Benteen
McDougal
Myles W. Keogh
Pee H. I. Nowlan
Terry
Captain Keogh
Wotire Comanche
Far West
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Fort Riley
Kan
Dyche
University of Kansas
Muassacre
Grell
Edward S. Godfrey
Cookstown
N. J
Godfrey
Alfred H. Terry
General Godfrey
Ohio
Twenty-first Ohio Infantry
United States Military Academy
West Point