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Old April 17th, 2018 #1
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Default Tales of rampant suicide among Custer’s soldiers may be overblown

Tales of rampant suicide among Custer’s soldiers may be overblown

Few men killed themselves during the Battle of the Little Bighorn, skeletal data suggest

Historical accounts of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn report that many of Gen. George Custer’s 7th Cavalry soldiers shot themselves to avoid being killed by Native American warriors after the crushing defeat. But a preliminary skeletal analysis, presented April 12 at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, suggests suicides were relatively rare among Custer’s overwhelmed forces.

“No doubt suicides happened among Custer’s men, but perhaps not on the grand scale previously suggested,” said bioarchaeologist Genevieve Mielke of the University of Montana in Missoula.

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