Interesting info. on John S. Hiley. When web searching info. about him, I came up with this:
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I should like to call attention to the case of the nobleman in the celebrated Grey Horse Troop of the Seventh Cavalry. I refer to Private John S. Hiley of Company E, killed in the battle. His story can be pieced together from various sources: a brief biography of Hiley given by Custer authority John S. Carroll in They Rode With Custer, a letter from Carroll published in the March, 1987, Little Big Horn Associates Newsletter, and also an interview with Lieutenant Charles DeRudio of the Seventh Cavalry printed in Kenneth Hammer's Custer in '76. "Hiley" was actually John Stuart Forbes, born in 1849 (or perhaps 1848) in Rugby, England, grandson of Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet of Pitelgo and Monymusk, Scotland. The state of affairs which led to Forbes's departure from his homeland and enlistment in the U.S. Army in 1872 under a false name is unknown, although it is interesting to note that a letter from his mother said, "You can return home now, as the trouble causing your departure has been settled." Who or what made this trouble for Forbes and how it was settled has been lost to history. It may be suggestive, however, that gambling equipment was found by Lieutenant DeRudio among his personal effects after the battle.
Posted 07/13/2011 08:40 am
