Show n INDIAN mAN CAMPAIGN R S HON R Unidentified Soldier Who t I Fought With Custer Has Military Funeral CROW AGENCY Mont June 26 By the tho Press Horn ag ago of the nation today was paid to the heroes of the IndIan campaigns when hen the body of an unidentified soldier who lost his ur life with Cen- Cen eral George Armstrong custer was given Iven nn all the of ot n a United Ul StateS StateS' mIlItary funeral after fifty years With him into inlo the the tomahawk ot of White Bull a sub chIeftain or of the Sioux Under under Un un- der Gall GaU directing genius o the aled allied al- al lied ed tribes that the command comand com com- and mand or of Custer at the battle of the Little Dig Big horn June 25 1876 a 1876 a as s symbol the chief explaIned of his desire to show that enmity between en the red men and the white man was at an end The body body of of the unknown soldier was uncovered a few da days s ago by a road construction crew crew the buttons Of adz ait army uniform and the b bullet whIch ended his life being the only means or of Identification Preceded Prec ded by a a. erless horse the casket contaIning the last tast mortal remains of the unknown trooper was borne born to the site or of t the pro posed monument at Garryowen as the seventh cavalry band played ed a a funeral dirge At the cemetery the he regIment paid H its final inal farewell as three volleys d through the concourse and and the sound of t taps died away way The The- funeral waS distinguished distin- distin by of the tact fact that In addition to to- active paI pall Bearers from the eight members members mem- mem bers or of Custers Custer's sev nth who were re engaged In the battig where here the trooper Was killed accompanIed the casket to Its grave t Following the funeral aJ General q n ral E E. S. S Godfrey l a a. Custer veteran as as Chairman of at the the- Custer Memorial l association presided over the Uc dedication dedi- dedi catton cation ot of a great slab ot of granite whIch Is to be a a. memorial to to the unknown soldier l' l As Asa a concluding c part of three the day s semi centennial ance ot of the battle of the the Little Dig BIg Hot n General Godfrey late today tOd visited that portion ot of the battlefield where troops under Majors Bentsen Bent en and imd andReno Reno Reno- made their stands and there placed Ii a large cross cross whIch will mark the battlefield pending the erection of a proposed congressional memorial shaft shatto |