Custer's last charge: Brevet Major-General George A. Custer, Lieutenant-Colonel 7th U.S. Cavalry – Antique Wall Art
![Custer's last charge: Brevet Major-General George A. Custer, Lieutenant-Colonel 7th U.S. Cavalry, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/27/270b917d0988-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Custer's last charge: Brevet Major-General George A. Custer, Lieutenant-Colonel 7th U.S. Cavalry. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Custer's last charge: Brevet Major-General George A. Custer, Lieutenant-Colonel 7th U.S. Cavalry
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Custer's last charge" stands out for the rank line in its title, which pairs Custer's Civil War brevet as major-general with his regular-army rank of lieutenant-colonel in the 7th U.S. Cavalry. Currier & Ives issued the lithograph in New York in 1876, within weeks of news reaching the East that Custer and much of his command had been killed at the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory on June 25 of that year. Prints like this sold quickly to a public eager for details of the battle, and the firm's dramatic version of the fight became one of the many images through which Americans came to understand it.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1457. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,256 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174286 |
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