Portrait c1865 of Major-General George Armstrong Custer (1839 - 1876) - famously killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.


Portrait photo circa 1865 of Major-General George Armstrong Custer (1839 - 1876). Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and later fought in the West in the Indian Wars. He was famously killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 while Lieutenant-Colonel of the US 7th Cavalry. The massacre of American troops by a coalition of Native American tribes is remembered as “Custer’s Last Stand”. Photo by Mathew B Brady.


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