From: bronco357@webtv.net   
      
   Custer was part of the Presidential escort   
   for the Democratic Candidate four years earlier. He was on the train   
   with the Candidate as he was travelling the country.   
      At the majority of the stops he got a larger audience that the   
   candidate. Due to his Civil War record. Several of the reporters who   
   were them also were impressed with   
   the reaction of the people. The democratic   
   convention was to be held in Chicago in 1876. Custer by then was a   
   national hero   
   & was sure he could get the nomination.   
   If he was able to win another battle with the Indians he felt he would   
   be nominated and could win the election. That is why he had Mr Kellog   
   the reporter with him.   
   I think my information was found in one of the two following books. But   
   which one I am not sure of.  "With Custer on The Little Big Horn" by   
   William O Taylor    or   
   "Soldiers Falling into Camp"  by Joseph   
   Marshall III.   
      
   In my opinion, due to the national uproar over the loss of the troops &   
   Custer, and   
   due to Libby Custers insistence in the paper & in private. A scape goat   
   was needed and that of course became Reno.   
   Later on he was discharged became a drunk and died. However he was later   
   cleared and buried next to the flag pole   
   at the battlefield.   
   Custer I think was buried in his home town and then reburied at   
   Arlington, I think. However I may be wrong on his grave site.   
      
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