The 7th U.S. Cavalry flag — known as a "guidon" for its swallow-tailed shape ... "We had a couple of people comment to us that we would be lucky to get a million for it." ...

Three other guidons were never recovered, while the regimental flag was on a train ... of gold there, the US insisted the Indians move to a reservation. The 7th Cavalry surprised the Indians ...

The guidon is the only one not captured or lost during the 1876 battle in the state of Montana. The flag, previously valued at $5m, was bought by a private US collector in the auction at Sotheby's ...

SHEPLEY sent home a piece of that flag to be preserved us a memento of that act by the ... replacing by it two little cavalry guidons that had previously been raised. I am, Sir, very respectfully.

“Now boys, let us show ... of the frames. A guidon flag had a more practical than ornamental purpose during the Civil War, experts said. They would often be associated with cavalry, or those ...

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 just $54 for it. Custer and more ...