Custer's Last Stand PHOTOS Lot Battle Flag & Commanders,Battle of Little Bighorn

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Amazing Historical Photographs
Get these wonderful photos of some of the commanders from the Battle of the Little Bighorn. You get 4 photos of the leaders and a wonderful photo of the Guidon (Battle Flag) of the 7th Cavalry from that fateful battle.
Marcus Albert Reno
: Major Reno was the highest-ranking officer serving under Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. His prominent role in the Battle of the Little Big Horn created over a century of controversy regarding his command decisions in the course of the infamous defeat. Reno halted his charge on the upstream end of the village where the Hunkpapa Lakota were located. He dismounted his men and had them form a skirmish line. Indians maneuvered around the skirmish line, forcing Reno to fall back toward the river. As the fight intensified, Reno lost his nerve and led a retreat; many of his men did not make it. Reno survived the battle and lived until 1889.
Date of photo is unknown.
Captain Myles Keogh
: exceptionally courageous, he fought in over a dozen battles for the Union during the Civil War including Gettysburg, Antietam, Bull Run, Kennesaw Mountain and many others!
Keogh was the senior Captain among the five companies wiped out with Custer at Little Bighorn, and commanding one of two squadrons within the Custer detachment, Keogh died surrounded by the men of Company I.
Photo from August 1863 during his service in the Civil War.
General George Crook
: Although he was not present at the battle, his absence is thought to have proven noteworthy. On June 17, 1876, just 8 days before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Crook's column retreated after the Battle of the Rosebud. Surprised and, according to some accounts, astonished by the unusually large numbers of Native Americans in the battle, Crook held the field at the end of the battle but felt compelled by his losses to pull back, regroup and wait for several weeks for reinforcements. Many military scholars believe if Crook?s column had moved onward the result at the Little Bighorn may have been much different. Photo circa 1870.
Captain Frederick Benteen
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Although Captain Benteen fought honorably in seven battles during the Civil War, he is best known for being in command of a battalion (Companies D, H,& K) of the 7th U. S. Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. While scouting the area, Captain Benteen received an urgent note from his superior officer George Armstrong Custer ordering him to bring up the ammunition packs and join him in Custer's surprise attack on a large Native American encampment. Benteen's failure to promptly comply is one of the most controversial aspects of the famed battle, which resulted in the death of Custer and the complete annihilation of the five companies of cavalrymen which comprised Custer's detachment. Benteen survived the battle. He died in Atlanta, Georgia on June 22, 1898 age 63. Photo is from late in his life.
Custer?s Last Flag
: Custer?s men were organized into 12 companies. Each company had a swallowtail flag, or guidon, carried by a corporal. These flags served as formation markers and rallying points. They were articles of pride, and during battles, men fought and died to ensure the enemy did not capture their guidons. Company A Sergeant Ferdinand Culbertson was among the detail that had buried the dead on Custer?s battlefield. As he turned over the body of Corporal John Foley of Captain Thomas Custer?s Company C, Culbertson found a guidon Foley had tucked into his shirt.
The Culbertson Guidon, as it is called, has one star and a patch of the white and red stripes are missing, cut from it as souvenirs. Photo of guidon is courtesy Sotheby's and is a
free bonus
in this auction here on ebay
Wonderful 4x6 inch
reprinted photographs.
Professionally reprinted
(not some junk printed on a home computer printer) only the finest quality!!!
So you get a total of
5 wonderful photographs
here in this auction! Five 4x6 glossy photos ready for your collection!!
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