Ted Yeatman: Tennessee Wild West: 7thCalvary at Nashville Prelude to Little Big Horn

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"The 7th Cavalry at Nashville: Prelude to Little Big Horn"

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National Monument)Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer showsoff the newly issued 1872 pattern dressuniform and helmet, something never seenin HollYwood Westerns. This photo Was takenin Memphis, at the stUdio of Bingham &Craver, 241-245 main Street, in ~arch 1873.


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/(custierBattlefield National Monument)Capt in Frederick W. Benteen, from a phototake.. 'Y C.C . Giers of Nashville .cir ca 1871.While in Nashville Benteen was inducted intothe International Order of Odd Fellows.


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eminder of the 7th? This cavalry spurf Und in 1980 in the yard of Buena Vista1, the site of Ash Barracks, deactivatedas a military post in 1877. It is of the typeused by the 7th Cavalry in the early 1870's.

(Map by Cyrus T. Brady from Indian Fightsand Fig hters)


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(Custer B ttlefield National Monument)

In Jun 0. 1958 these remains, probably ofeither Julien Jones or Thomas Meador, bothof whom served at Nashville, were unearthedduring excavation on Reno's Hill. The buttonsindicate that this trooper was wearing acavalry ~hell jacket at the battle.

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o '1 ' the many visitors to Belle MeadeMru._'on in the 1880' s Was Major Marcus Reno,Who attended West Point with owner, IHlliamHicks Jackson. Reno's son Was married inNashville to Whiskey heiress Ittie Kinney,

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Ba tt le fi el d N at io na l M on um en t)C. DeRudio spent his last days inLos ng;les, where he died in 1910, a retiredMajor uf the U.S. Army.


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(Custe~ attlefield National Monument)

After i: discharge from the ar~y in 1883.Charle Windolph worked for the HomestakeMining Co. in Deadwood, South Dakota forforty-nine years. He died on March 11, 1950,the last surviving member of the 7th Cavalrywho fought at the Little Big Horn.

(71l.W,#9)


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Firs eutenant Francis Marion Gibsonwas etached service during much ofH Trool 's stay at Nashville. He rejoinedthe unit in May of 1872, but spent a goodbit of time escorting recruitsafterwards.


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(Photo by Ted P. Yeatman)Probable site of crayAllison's parley atthe Wayne County Iron Works, east of Waynes-boro, on August 15, 1868.


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(Photo by Ted P. Yeatman)The grave of John Allison in the cemeteryof the Mt. Carmel Methodist Church, nearClifton, Tennessee. John was wounded in agunfight in Las Animas, Colorado on December21, 1876 at the Olympic Dance Hall. Clay killedhis assailant, but John carried some of thebuckshot for the remainder of his life..

Ted Yeatman: Tennessee Wild West: 7thCalvary at Nashville Prelude to Little Big Horn

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