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Tommy and Addie

Thomas C. "Tommy" Custer was born in either 1870 or 1871 near Tontogany, Wood County, OH, the son of Civil War hero Thomas Ward Custer and Rebecca Minerd, who were not married. Tommy's father and uncle, General George Armstrong Custer, were killed together at the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn when Tommy was but a boy. Tommy and his wife are pictured here.

Tommy

A portrait of Tommy is seen here. Custer experts have noted the close facial resemblance between son and father. This is a copy made from an original tintype found in the old photo album of one of Tommy's first cousins.

The story of Tommy and his parents was the subject of our 2002 National Minerd-Miner-Minor Reunion, and a lecture at the 2003 Great Lakes Conference of the Little Big Horn Associates. As well, he is pictured and mentioned in a 2002 biography of his father, Tom Custer: Ride to Glory, by Carl F. Day.

Family lore has been passed down that Tommy's parents were married, but there is no documentation to support this. Rath

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Born on March 15, 1845, at New Rumley, Ohio, Tom Custer was more than five years younger than his more famous older brother, George Armstrong. Tom joined the army at the age of sixteen; he was two years under age when he enlisted to fight in the Civil War on September 2, 1861. He participated in the Battle of Stone's River, December 31, 1862 – January 2, 1863. Thereafter, he served on escort duty for a number of generals including Ulysses S. Grant and George Thomas. Tom reenlisted and on October 23, 1864, he was appointed second lieutenant with the 6^th Michigan Cavalry, serving as aide-de-camp to his brother George Custer.

He was awarded two Medals of Honor for his actions at Namozine Church, April 3, 1865, and at Sayler's Creek, April 6, 1865. In these two fights, Tom captured two battle flags and was wounded in the face. He was the first man in American military history and the only Federal soldier in the Civil War to be awarded two Medals of Honor.

Tom Custer joined his brother's command in Texas after the war to restore order and combat French presence in Mexico under Prin

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A Hunkpapa Lakota, Rain-in-the-Face was born about 1835 near the forks of the Cheyenne River. Rain-in-the-Face had a reputation for belligerence from early boyhood. At the age of ten, he got into a fight with a "friendly" Cheyenne, the result of which his face was bloodied and streaked with blood, thus giving him his name. Later, as a young man, in an all-day fight with the Gros Ventres, his face paint was streaked with rain, reinforcing his name.

A chain of events began during the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873. During the expedition two civilians, Sutler Augustus Baliran and Dr. John Honsinger, after leaving the soldier column to obtain water along the river bank, were attacked and killed by Indians. Sixteen months later, at Standing Rock Agency, guide Charley Reynolds observed Rain-in-the-Face, at a ceremonial dance, acting out the killing of at least one of the civilians. Reynolds reported what he had learned to George Armstrong Custer back at Fort Abraham Lincoln.

Custer dispatched Captain Tom Custer and Captain George Yates with two companies of 7^th Cavalry to arrest Rai