Where were Major Elliott, Captain Hamilton and the other twenty cavalry men buried?
Major Elliott was finally laid to rest at Fort Gibson National Cemetery. His grave site is at the Officers’ Circle. Captain Hamilton was first buried at Fort Supply with two other troopers killed at Washita. His remains were later interred at his family cemetery at Pokeepsie, New York. Sergeant Major Kennedy and the other eighteen cavalrymen are buried, in an unknown spot, somewhere in the hills northeast of the historic site; probably northwest of Strong City, Oklahoma.
