Garryowen Montana Campgrounds
Garryowen is
the site where the Battle of the Little Big Horn began, at Sitting
Bull's Camp.
The world famous Custer Battlefield Museum is located at Exit 514,
off I-90.
The Custer Battlefield Museum is dedicated to collecting and
preserving the history of Western Expansion on the American high plains,
including artifacts, manuscripts and memorabilia related to the Seventh
Cavalry, frontier military life and Plains Indian tribes. Featuring the
David F. Barry photograph collection featuring more than 100 photos
printed from the original glass negatives.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The remains of this unknown trooper were found in 1926 prior to the
50th Anniversary of the Custer Battle. Presumed to have been one of
Major Reno's men, one of the first Seventh Cavalry men killed in the
opening phase of the battle in the river valley near Garryowen, Montana.
Apparently high water in the spring following the famed battle, caused
the soldier's body to be buried, and it was not found until the road
crew building the US 87 Highway uncovered it 50 years later.
Peace Monument
Now 125 years after the Battle of the Little Big Horn the Custer
Battlefield Museum unveiled a new 'Peace Monument' which is located
behind the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Featured on each side of the
Granite Peace Monument is a bronze sculpture of Sitting Bull and General
George Armstrong Custer.
Area History
In 1895 the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad established a
tiny station on the Little Bighorn River, where water was taken on, and
U.S. Army troops, supplies and mail were off-loaded for delivery to
nearby forts.
The site was originally named for the marching song of the 7th
Cavalry, which was under General George Custer's command at the Battle
of the Little Bighorn. Myles Keogh, one of Custer's officers, carried
the tune and words from Ireland. It had been the marching song for the
Royal Lancers at Garryowen, Ireland, a famous British unit, of which
Keogh's father was an officer.
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