NEW YORK, N.Y. - Lt. Col. George Custer and the men of his 7th Cavalry Regiment went into the Battle of the Little Bighorn with flags flying, but they were wiped out, and nearly all their military ...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Frayed, torn and maybe even a little bloodstained, the only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer's "Last Stand" at the Battle of Little Bighorn sold for $54 ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- After spending much of the last century in storage, the only U.S. flag not captured or lost during Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn sold at auction Friday ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The only U.S. flag not captured or lost after George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn sold for just $54 when it first surfaced in the 1890s. On Friday, ...

The 7th U.S. Cavalry flag, known as a "guidon" for it's swallow-tailed shape, was sold on a bid of $1.9 million with a final sale price of $2.2 million after fees.

In December 1890, as fear of a spiritual uprising gripped the U.S. frontier, soldiers of the 7th Cavalry surrounded a Lakota camp at Wounded Knee Creek. What followed was chaos and slaughter—men, ...

A second 7th Cavalry guidon was recovered in September 1876, at the Battle of Slim Buttes near present-day Reva, S.D. Now in possession of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, that flag ...