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GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER (1839-1876) Major General of Volunteers and Colonel in the United States Army. After the Civil War he was engaged in various expeditions against the western Indians. Impetuously attacking a vastly superior force of Sioux under Sitting Bull on the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, he and his immediate command were annihilated.

GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER (1839-1876) Major General of Volunteers and Colonel in the United States Army. After the Civil War he was engaged in various expeditions against the western Indians. Impetuously attacking a vastly superior force of Sioux under Sitting Bull on the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, he and his immediate command were annihilated.

Medium/TechniqueChromolithograph (Heliochrome) on card stock.
DimensionsVertical: 14 x 8.9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Credit LineLeonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
Accession number2015.8466
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ClassificationsPostcards
ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)