June 25, 1876 - Isaiah Dorman, a formerly enslaved interpreter, was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Not much is known of Dorman’s early life although records suggest that he was born enslaved in the 1840s. In 1...865, he was hired to carry the mail on a 360 mile roundtrip between Forts Rice and Wadsworth. It was reported that he did this on foot for about two years. In 1871, he served as a guide and interpreter for a party of engineers making the Northern Pacific Railroad Survey. In 1876, Dorman was hired by General George Armstrong Custer as an interpreter for his expedition to the Little Bighorn country. On this date, he accompanied a detachment into battle and was killed, the only black man killed in the fight. His body was recovered after the fight and eventually interred in the Little Bighorn National Cemetery. The spot where Dorman was killed is commemorated with a marble marker