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Region:
United States > Montana
Cache type: Virtual
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Status:
Archived
Date hidden: 2010-11-12
Date created: 2010-11-13
Date published: 2010-11-13
Last modification: 2011-05-04 
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On 25 June, 1876, the 7th US Cavalry found itself defending this hilltop, and their lives, against warriors of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe Nations. As the situation became more desperate for the cavalrymen, many of their horses were sacrificed and shot in order to create a defensive breastwork.
Three years later, in 1879, a cordwood monument was erected by a detail under the command of Capt. G.K. Sanderson atop of the same hill. The surrounding area, strewn with cavalry horse skeletons, was policed and the remains collected and placed inside the monument.
In 1881, Lt. Charles F. Roe and a detail from the 2nd US Cavalry replaced the cordwood monument with the present granite one and interred the 7th Cavalry casualties around its base. In reverence for their noble companions, the cavalrymen dug a cemetary for the fallen horses and lined it with the cordwood from the original monument.
Today, the horse cemetary is marked with a white granite marker, and information plaque just to the east of the 7th Cavlary Monument.
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