Some Low-Paid Frontier Soldiers Proved Particularly Enterprising

They found various ways to augment their salaries. On his last trip to Washington, D.C., before his June 1876 trouble at the Little Bighorn River, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer buttonholed U.S. Representative Heister Clymer with a request to raise sergeants’ pay above $40 a month. Custer had earlier secured ammunition allotments so his soldiers …

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