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Show THE CUSTER CEMETERY. The Hoot Whera Oaliaat General fuil.r Fall to be Maria national Cemetery. The Missouri department headquar-ters headquar-ters is iu receipt of an order from army headquarters ia Washington to the effect ef-fect that the field ou the Little Big Horn, where General George A. Custer and his regiment were massacred, is to be made a uat.onal cemetery. A monument monu-ment to the memory of Custer has already al-ready been erected ou the situ of the fatal battle-field, and around it are to be grouped graves containing the remains re-mains of every nuiu who fell with Custer Cus-ter at the nis-'saero. Aflcrtlio bai tie General John Gibbon, then eoiouel of the Seventh infantry, came 011 the battle field and trenched the dead. One by one the bones were afterwards removed to posts w here the troop to which they belonged were statioucd and there interred. The order or-der now is that nil the remains ol' llm massacred command buried at Forts Lincoln, N. D., and liennctt, S. 1.; Forts Kiee. liuiord and Totteu, N.D.; Cmnp l'oplar lliver and Fort Maginuis (now abandoned) Mont., bo conveyed to the site of the massacre and there bo re interred. Lieutenant John II. Wells. Twelfth infantry, and Lieutenant Lieuten-ant John F. Krcps are" charged w ith the execution of this duty, The new cemetery will be known as the "Custer liattlo-lield National Cemetery." |