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This formal portrait shows George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876). Custer, a United States army cavalry officer, is remembered for commanding the U.S. Seventh Cavalry Regiment into the Battle of the Little Bighorn, on June 25, 1876, in which all of his soldiers and Custer himself were attacked and killed by a coalition of Plains Indians.
Date: Between 1860s and 1870s
Item Number: 216330
Call Number: B Custer, George *38
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 216330
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Military
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Military - Service - Army - Cavalry
Military - Service - Army - Cavalry - 7th Cavalry
Military - Wars - Civil War
Military - Wars - Indian Wars
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable People - Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Photographs
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