George Edwin Lord

George Edwin Lord, who lived from 1846 to 1876, was an American army doctor and an assistant surgeon of the 7th Cavalry. Born in Brunswick, Maine, he graduated from Bowdoin College, attended medical school and then moved west to serve the United States Army at frontier forts and outposts. He signed a new contract in January 1875, was made a first lieutenant in the 7th Cavalry and was posted to Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory. During the Great Sioux War he rode with Custer's column and was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. His body was not identified at first and he was listed as missing until officers who saw a corpse in a blue shirt persuaded General Terry to list him as killed in action. His surgical kit was later recovered from the Indians and sent to the Army's medical museum.