<P> Almost as soon as men came forward implying or directly pronouncing their unique role in the battle, there were others who were equally opposed to any such claims . Theodore Goldin, a battle participant who later became a controversial historian on the event, wrote (in regards to Charles Hayward's claim to have been with Custer and taken prisoner): </P> <P> The Indians always insisted that they took no prisoners . If they did--a thing I firmly believe--they were tortured and killed the night of the 25th . As an evidence of this I recall the three charred and burned heads we picked up in the village near the scene of the big war dance, when we visited the village with Capt . Benteen and Lieut . Wallace on the morning of the 27th...I'm sorely afraid, Tony, that we will have to class Hayward's story, like that of so many others, as pure, unadulterated B.S. As a clerk at headquarters I had occasion to look over the morning reports of at least the six troops at Lincoln almost daily, and never saw his name there, or among the list of scouts employed from time to time...I am hoping that some day all of these damned fakirs will die and it will be safe for actual participants in the battle to admit and insist that they were there, without being branded and looked upon as a lot of damned liars . Actually, there have been times when I have been tempted to deny that I ever heard of the 7th Cavalry, much less participated with it in that engagement...My Medal of Honor and its inscription have served me as proof positive that I was at least in the vicinity at the time in question, otherwise I should be tempted to deny all knowledge of the event . </P> <P> The only documented and verified survivor of Custer's command (having been actually involved in Custer's part of the battle) was Captain Keogh's horse, Comanche . The wounded horse was discovered on the battlefield by General Terry's troops, and although other cavalry mounts survived they had been taken by the Indians . Comanche eventually was returned to the fort and became the regimental mascot . Several other badly wounded horses were found and destroyed at the scene . Writer Evan S. Connell noted in Son of the Morning Star: </P> <P> Comanche was reputed to be the only survivor of the Little Bighorn, but quite a few Seventh Cavalry mounts survived, probably more than one hundred, and there was even a yellow bulldog . Comanche lived on another fifteen years, and when he died, he was stuffed and to this day remains in a glass case at the University of Kansas . So, protected from moths and souvenir hunters by his humidity - controlled glass case, Comanche stands patiently, enduring generation after generation of undergraduate jokes . The other horses are gone, and the mysterious yellow bulldog is gone, which means that in a sense the legend is true . Comanche alone survived . </P>

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