Death
The Battle of the Little Bighorn proved a disastrous defeat for the 7th Cavalry Regiment. Reed was killed, as were all three of his uncles— George, Boston, and Thomas— and Reed’s uncle-in-law James Calhoun. Reed was killed atop Last Stand Hill, and his head was scalped and body mutilated by the victorious Indian forces, as were the majority of those killed in the battle. A marble marker was erected at the exact site where his body was recovered several days later.
He was originally buried on the battlefield, but a year later, his body was exhumed and interred at the Woodland Cemetery in his hometown of Monroe, Michigan, while the marble marker remains in its location in the present-day Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Interestingly, his removed scalped is on display at the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, Kansas.
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