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Collection Summary
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1674-00001
Title: Private John Martin (Giovanni Martini)
Date: 1904
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Summary: Portrait of a trumpeter in the 7th Cavalry.|| His true name, prior to its anglicization, was confirmed as Giovanni Martino during his registration, effectively dispelling the widespread belief in later years that he was Giovanni Martini. One year later, facing limited employment options, he enlisted with the United States Army as John Martin and was assigned to Jefferson Barracks in Missouri to begin training as a cavalry trooper and bugler before his permanent assignment to the U.S. Seventh Cavalry Regiment, led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. In 1876, he was attached to Company H but on the morning of June 25, Martin was temporarily assigned to serve as one of Custer’s bugler-orderlies. As Custer and nearly 210 troopers and scouts began their final approach to the massive Indian village located in the Little Big Horn River valley, Martin was dispatched with an urgent note for reinforcements and ammunition. Newspaper accounts of the period referred to him as “Custer massacre survivor” and “the last white man to see Custer alive”. Martin and the remaining Seventh Cavalry companies not riding with Custer were trapped on a nearby hill and fought off repeated attacks for 36 hours until their rescue by another U.S. Army column.
Red ID: PH_I_93252 Image ID: 37331 Image Notes: A1674-00001-back

Collection: A Digitized Images from Collection
Title: A Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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Collection Summary
Collection: A - A Collection
Folder: 0000.000
Item: 1674-00001
Title: Private John Martin (Giovanni Martini)
Date: 1904
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Summary: Portrait of a trumpeter in the 7th Cavalry.|| His true name, prior to its anglicization, was confirmed as Giovanni Martino during his registration, effectively dispelling the widespread belief in later years that he was Giovanni Martini. One year later, facing limited employment options, he enlisted with the United States Army as John Martin and was assigned to Jefferson Barracks in Missouri to begin training as a cavalry trooper and bugler before his permanent assignment to the U.S. Seventh Cavalry Regiment, led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. In 1876, he was attached to Company H but on the morning of June 25, Martin was temporarily assigned to serve as one of Custer’s bugler-orderlies. As Custer and nearly 210 troopers and scouts began their final approach to the massive Indian village located in the Little Big Horn River valley, Martin was dispatched with an urgent note for reinforcements and ammunition. Newspaper accounts of the period referred to him as “Custer massacre survivor” and “the last white man to see Custer alive”. Martin and the remaining Seventh Cavalry companies not riding with Custer were trapped on a nearby hill and fought off repeated attacks for 36 hours until their rescue by another U.S. Army column.
Red ID: PH_I_93252 Image ID: 37330 Image Notes: A1674-00001

Collection: A Digitized Images from Collection
Title: A Collection
Date: XX/XXXX

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