This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRANDON-MOORE-MULLINAX-DIKES-DYKES-BASKETTE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hBB.2ACE/1007 Message Board Post: In 1997 while visiting the site of CUSTER'S LAST STAND at the Little Bighorn Battlefield at Hardin, Montana I found that BENJAMIN BRANDON was one of the enlisted men killed there. BENJAMIN BRANDON was born about 1831-33 near Hopkinsville, KY and was killed along with GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER at the battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana, June 25, 1876. Benjamin was evidently a professional soldier. His name is on the large monument that marks the mass grave of the enlisted men that died in the battle with the Indians. I have obtained his military records from the Nat'l Archives and they show that he first enlisted in 1855 at the age of 22. His last enlistment was in the fall of 1875 at the age of 44. The records do not list his parents or next of kin and after his death no one applied for a survivors pension, which leads me to believe that he was not married. Someone must have some information that shows who BENJAMIN BRANDON descended from. Even though Benjamin is probably not in my line of Brandons, it would sure be rewarding to establish his lineage so that it could be put in his records at the Little Big Horn National Monument at! Hardin, Montana. Keith Brandon Wellington, KS keithb@sutv.com