Algernon E. Smith At Fort Fisher and Custer's Last Stand-- Part 3

Algernon Smith participated in seven campaigns against the Indians including the Yellowstone Campaign in 1873 and then he was made assistant quartermaster and was in the 1874 Black Hills Expedition.

He was first lieutenant of Company A of the 7th U.S. cavalry, but assigned to the command of Company E, whose commander was at Fort Leavenworth.  It was this reason why he was with Custer's group at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and was killed.

His body was found full of arrows and not among the men of his company, but instead was found with Custer in the small knot of dead troops on "Last Stand Hill."

He was given a hasty burial on the battlefield and later re-interred in 1877 at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery in Kansas.

His widow survived until 1903.

From Fort Fisher to the Last Stand.  --Old B-R'er