This area memorializes one of the last armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians. Here in 1876, 263 soldiers and attached personnel of the U.S. Army,including Lt. Col. George A. Custer, met death at the hands of several thousand Lakota and Cheyenne warriors.
Address: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument PO Box 39
,Crow Agency, MT 59022
Phone (406) 638-3204 Fax (406) 66W5-2623
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Located on the banks of the Little Big Horn River
was the largest concentration of Indians from six tribes that history has ever recorded. Present were the Cheyenne, Sans Arcs, Miniconjoux Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Blackfeet and Hunkpapa Sioux. It has been estimated that there were anywhere between ten to fifteen thousand Indians with over 2,500 warriors
Fort Abercrombie was established by Colonel John J. Abercrombe in 1858.
2nd U.S. Infantry to protect the settlers in theRed River Valley from the Sioux Indians. It was the first permanent U.S. military fort established in what was to become North Dakota. The fort served to guard wagon trains headed for the Montana border.and military mail routes.Abandoned 1877
and the buildings sold to area settlers. The military reservation was transferred to the Interior Dept. on 1880.
This is a data base of soldiers removed from Fort Abercrombie to their final resting place at the Little Big Horn Battlefield. There are 16 graves that do not have names. (source, Dept.of Interior).
Fort Abercrombie
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