Custer National Cemetery
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BruceS
N 45° 34.211 W 107° 25.885
13T E 310278 N 5049169
National cemetery located at the Little Bighorn National Monument.
Waymark Code: WM32V1
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2008
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From Montana: A State Guide Book - Tour 3:
CUSTER BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL CEMETERY... This cemetery, covering 7.5 acres,
has become a repository for the dead of various battles and forts of the
Northwest. In 1931 the bones of 1,421 soldiers and civilians from Forts C. F.
Smith, Phil Kearny, Maginnis, Abraham Lincoln, Custer, Keogh, and others, had
been reburied there.
The Custer National Cemetery is maintained by the National Park Service as
part of the Little Bighorn National Monument. The cemetery was established in
1886 and was officially closed to future internments in 1978. The cemetery is
the final resting place for about 4,900. Many graves are re-internments from
closed military forts around Montana and Wyoming. The cemetery has graves of
veterans from Indian Wars, Spanish American War, World War One, World War Two,
Korean War, and Vietnam.