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From: prahrens@pttesac.UUCP (Peter Ahrens)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Gary Owen
Summary: 7th Cavalry
Keywords: Custer, Keogh
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Date: 29 Apr 89 01:23:56 GMT
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From: prahrens@pttesac.UUCP (Peter Ahrens)

In article <5935@cbnews.ATT.COM> UALTAVM.gatech.edu!DPIROT@gatech.uucp writes:
>
>From: UALTAVM.gatech.edu!DPIROT@gatech.uucp
>
>Can someone tell me the significance of the motto 'Gary Owen', associated
>with the US Cavalry?

"Garry Owen" is the name of an Irish tune introduced to George Armstrong
Custer by Myles Keogh, a fellow officer of the 7th.  Custer loved it
and adopted it as the regimental tune.  Keogh was an extremely interesting
figure in the 7th Cavalry, having previously served in Europe in the 
Papal Guard; his horse Commanche is said to have been the only living
thing remaining on the Little Big Horn Battlefield by the time Terry's
scouts arrived there.  There is now a small town in Montana named
Garryowen, just south of Hardin, if I recall, on the Crow Reservation
which surrounds the Custer Battlefield Nat'l Monument.

-Peter Ahrens