It is entirely possible that Custer was taken alive and tortured. Squaws were expert at that, and it happened to many troopers on that day.
If that were true, the Army would never have let that story out. They did let it out that his brother Tom was cut all to pieces by the squaws.
Custer's body was found with his troops on Last Stand Hill as it is called. He suffered two bullet wounds one of which was a shot to the brain. He had a chest wound also. I have read speculation that his brother Tom may have finished him off. Some of the troops most certainly committed suicide to avoid capture and torture.
