This is not my family, and I don't know anything about them, but I stumbled
across this on
Ancestry.com and thought I would pass it on.
Happy Hunting!
Jennifer
Fresno (CA) Weekly Republican, 29 April, 1892
Fought Under Custer
A very happy family reunion occurred six miles west of Muncie a few days
since at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Russell.
For over thirty years a member of the family has been mourned as dead,
but Wednesday he made a happy surprise to his old parents and friends with his
presence. Ernest, the oldes son ran away fom home in 1859, going to
Minnesota, where he remained until 1862, when he enlisted in the civil war and
remained until the close, whennhe joined the regular army under commaend of that
gallant general, Custer. Nothing was ever heard of the young man until his
name was by mistake placed in the list of kileed in the reat massacre at Little
Big Horn.
The young man was severely injured in the fight, but recovered and lives
once more to enter his home, where he will remain. Ernest well remembers
the famous Indian fight, and relates the horrible spectaclehe witnessed in a
manner that chills a person's blood.-Cor. Indianapolis Sentinal