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The chief denied it later during an interview. Custer's corpse was so badly mutilated that the remains were identified only by a recognizable tattoo of his initials on his arm. Tom Custer was first buried on the battlefield. He was exhumed with other soldiers the next year and reburied in Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery. A stone memorial ...
The claim that Tom Custer's body was decapitated by the Indians is also disputed for reasons that are not made clear. The identification of the headless body as Tom Custer is not from Wooden Leg, who at the time of the battle knew nothing of either Custer or his brother Tom, but is information provided by Marquis.
Custer's body was found near the top of Custer Hill, which also came to be known as "Last Stand Hill". There the United States erected a tall memorial obelisk inscribed with the names of the 7th Cavalry's casualties. [71]
A body was found in the passenger seat of a vehicle after a driver was pulled over during a traffic stop in Georgia on the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, police say.
Five people have been arrested after a 24-year-old transgender man was found dead in New York after being subjected to over a month of "physical and psychological abuse," police have said. On ...
A police spokesperson said, "Police Scotland was made aware of the body of a person seen in the River Dee near Queen Elizabeth Bridge in Aberdeen around 7.55 a.m. on Friday 31 January 2025."
From the detailed description of these tattoos, and the buckskin clothing, Marquis identifies the body as Tom Custer. [68] This criticism does not seem to have been taken up by other scholars. Tom Custer's biography describes the decapitation and the identification from tattoos as facts without further comment. [69]
The chief said the officers followed the car to a dead-end street, where the suspect pulled over and stopped. Neudigate said Girvin and Reese approached the car, which had two people inside, and ...