Monday, June 25, 2007
Custer's Last Stand
Today in 1876 George Custer and part of his 7th cavalry was killed at Little Big Horn, Montana. Included in those killed was Corporal George C. Morris with Company I, who was born July 4th, 1851 in Georgetown Delaware. Another that was with the 7th Cavalry Company M but not at Little Big Horn was Private Hugh N. Moore, born in 1842 in Dorchester County Maryland. He fought in the valley and hilltop fights around Little Big Horn. He died in 1900 in Washington DC. An interesting website that shows who was in the Seventh Cavalry at the time can be found by clicking here. I took a quick count of where they born as it appeared there was a lot of Irish in the 7th Cavalry. Out of about 930 men, 130 were born in Ireland, 120 born in Germany, and another 112 were born in England and Europe. So 39% of Custer's unit was foreign born.
# posted by Howard @ 7:09 PM 
