New York (CNN)-- A flag that accompanied Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry into their final battle 134 years ago will be put up for auction, the auction house that will handle ...

On Friday, the swallow-tailed 7th U.S. Cavalry flag, known as a "guidon," is expected to bring up to $5 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York. And while Custer's reputation has risen and ...

He leaped over enemy defenses and captured another battle flag. His horse was ... a few miles away from where the Custer family and five companies of the 7th Cavalry died. When the burial detail ...

Gen. Custer upon Peace Propositions. Gen. Custer in Newark, N. J. Presentation of the Captured Flags to the War Department. Gen. Butler's Orders. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ARMY OF THE JAMES.

On this day—June 25, 1876—the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples united to overcome, defeat and kill the entire US Army’s 7th Cavalry led by General George Armstrong Custer. Many people ...

A second 7th Cavalry guidon was recovered in September ... As for Culbertson's Guidon - or Custer's Last Flag, as Sotheby's has billed it - Woody pointed out that without the Custer mystique ...

Since 1895, the 7th U.S. Cavalry flag — known as a "guidon" for its swallow-tailed shape — had been the property of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which paid $54 for it. Custer and more than ...

“Garryowen” was the marching song of the 7th Cavalry and the infamous Lt Colonel George Custer when they massacred native American villages in the all-out campaign in the 1870s to rid the ...

Say the name "George Armstrong Custer" and immediately visions usually come to mind of hordes of Native American warriors circling an outnumbered band of desperate U.S. 7th Cavalry troopers.

Members decided to change focus — and found it in the concept of George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry. Sheridan's American Legion was the seventh post established in the nation, hence the ...