Guns International #: 100815945

Category - Collectibles - Native American - Art - Painting & Print

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Collectibles - Native American
Art - Painting & Print

COMANCHE - LONE U.S. SURVIVOR of LITTLE BIG HORN MASSACRE

Description:
ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH by D.F.BERRY ...
This 8" x 5.75" photo shows "Comanche" and his handler on April 10, 1878.
Comanche was purchased in 1868 for $90.00 and became the mount of Captain Myles W. Keogh, Commander, Company 1, 7th Cavalry. After Custer's last stand at the Little Big Horn, Comanche was found on the battlefield, weak with bullet and arrow wounds. He was nursed back to health after a lengthy convalescense in a special sling equipped stall and eventually became the venerated mascot of the 7th Cavalry until his death on November 9, 1891.
HEADQUARTERS SEVENTH U.S. CAVALRY, DAKOTA TERRITORY, April 10,1878 ... GENERAL ORDER #7
"The horse know as "Comanche" being the only representative of the bloody tragedy of the Little Big Horn, Montana, June 25, 1876, his kind treatment and comfort should be a matter of special pride and solicitude on the part of the 7th Cavalry, to the end that his life may be prolonged to the utmost limit. Though wounded and scarred, his very silence speaks in terms more eloquent than words of the desperate struggle against overwhelming odds of the hopeless conflict, and heroic manner in which all went down that day.
The commander of I Troop will see that a special and comfortable stall is fitted up for Comanche; he will not be ridden by any person what ever under any circumstances, nor will he be put to any work.
Hearafter upon all occasions of ceremony, Comanche, saddled, bridled, and led by a mounted trooper of Troop I, will be paraded with the regiment."
Comanche passed away at Ft. Riley, Kansas on November 9,1891.
 

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