I only came across this matter the other day in a TV documentary. Amazing ! Until this news, the only survivor of Custer`s last battle on June 25th 1876 was Captain Myles Keogh`s badly wounded horse "Comanche". Comanche was sent to Fort Lincoln, where he was nursed back to health and after a long convalescence was treated as a non-rideable pet by the 7th Cavalry. He died naturally in 1890. Now we have the tale of Sergeant Frank Finkle of C Company, 7th Cavalry, See :- http://www.historynet.com/survivor-frank-finkels-lasting-stand.htm Having seen the TV program and read this link, I am fully convinced that Finkle is telling the truth and that when Lt. Colonel Custer beat a hasty retreat up the Little Big Horn, where all form of discipline completely disintegrated under immense Indian pressure and all 210 men under his command were annihilated, Finkle did have a lucky escape just like the link describes from his testimony given in April 1920 - nearly 50 years later. Well, you live and learn.