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A Man of Wealth and Taste
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I also have a fair number of interesting Springfield International and National Match rifles from before WW2...
Keogh was the ONLY 7th Cav member with Custer not to be mutilated....even Custer had his eardrums pierced...the Indians felt that the Papal Medal was big medicine.
The question is at the end did Custer kill himself....the Indians had no idea they were fighting Custer....he had a gunshot wound to the temple along with one through the left breast...and he wasn't mutilated except for his ear drums being pierced....the Indians didn't mutilate suicides...
After the battle Captain Benteen, Lt Godfrey and 14 Troopers from Co H were the first White men to survey the massacre site...Pvt Windrolph was among them...Otto Voit along with Windrolph and 2 others (all Benteens CO H men) were the Sharpsshooters that kept the indians heads down while the Troopers went for water....so it stands to reason that Voit was among the 14 Troopers to accompany Benteen and Godfrey....
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