Click to open image viewer. Photograph of Colonel Thomas Ward Custer, 7th US Cavalry. Custer, the younger brother of General George Armstrong Custer, was killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn on ...

‘Custer’s Last Stand,’ an 1899 oil-on-canvas painting by Edgar Samuel Paxson, depicts the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana from the point of view of the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Lt.

This story is part of a series marking the 125th anniversary of The Battle at the Little Big Horn, in June 1876. On Oct. 9, 1864, before the Union force of Brig. Gen. George Custer charged into the ...