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Custer's Last Charge: Brevet Major General George A. Custer, Lieutenant Colonel 7th US Cavalry, 1876 Size:24x36 Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs toCuster's Last Charge: Brevet Major General George A. Custer, Lieutenant Colonel 7th US Cavalry, 1876. A lithograph of the Little Bighorn rendered in the romantic register the nation preferred Custer upright amid the swirl, the 7th Cavalry collapsing into legend before the smoke had even cleared the Montana grass. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,