Initial Rock, also known as Name Rock, in the Medora Ranger District of the Little Missouri National Grassland, near Medora, North Dakota, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1976.
It was the site of an overnight camp on May 28, 1876 of George Armstrong Custer's men, on their way to the Battle of Little Big Horn, which happened on June 25, 1876.
[1][2] Two soldiers, W.C. Williams and F. Neely, carved their names in a rock still present at the site.
Williams and Neely, under the command of Marcus Reno, survived the battle.
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