Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 16, 2017 10:05:09 GMT -6
Several Maine men rode with Custer to their deaths at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. One of them was James Ezekiel Porter of Strong, Maine.
The son of that community's leading family, he attended Maine Seminary (now Bates) for a year before heading to Norwich for two years and finally, West Point. He was a good student who graduated 16th in a class of 39.