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Sunday, September 23, 2018

Where George and Tom Custer Are Buried


As long as I am on burials, two other of the Custer boys are buried elsewhere from Woodland Cemetery.

Thomas Ward Custer, younger brother of George Custer is buried at the Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  His gravestone says he was awarded two Medals of Honor during the Civil War and he died with his brother at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

George Armstrong Custer was killed at the Battle  of the Little Big Horn and his body initially buried in a shallow grave on the site.  A year later, he was dug up and reburied with full military honors at the West Point Cemetery on October  10, 1877.

--Brock-Perry

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