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This lithograph signed by Elizabeth A Custer shows her husband George Armstrong Custer, (1839-1876). As a United States army cavalry officer he 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.
Creator: Brady's National Portrait Galleries
Date: Between 1860 and 1865
Item Number: 216346
Call Number: B Custer, George *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 216346
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Military
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Military - Service - Army - Cavalry
Military - Wars - Civil War
Military - Wars - Indian Wars
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Lithograph
People - Notable People - Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Illustrations - Lithographs and Engravings
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