Pocket watch

ID: 1195
This file appears in: General Custer Here

Pocket watch owned by Lt. John J. Crittenden, who was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn with Custer. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historial Society.

This file appears in: General Custer Here

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #606 in Elizabethtown notes the service of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his men in Kentucky during the Reconstruction era. During the early 1870s, racial violence was so…