Was George Custer’s body mutilated after the Little Big Horn battle?
Paul Hughes
Vacaville, California
Historians still struggle to corroborate or disprove this claim.
Some 50 years after the fight, two Cheyenne women asserted they had pierced George Custer’s ears with needles so he could hear better in the afterlife. Reports also circulated that George’s penis had an arrow rammed up it, a detail kept secret to protect his widow, Libbie.
Mutilation of the enemy dead was a comm
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