New York (CNN)-- A flag that accompanied Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry into their final battle 134 years ago will be put up for auction, the auction house that will handle ...

On Friday, the swallow-tailed 7th U.S. Cavalry flag, known as a "guidon," is expected to bring up to $5 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York. And while Custer's reputation has risen and ...

The 7th U.S. Cavalry flag from George Armstrong Custer's Last Stand was being sold by the Detroit Institute of Arts to raise money for growing its Native American arts collection. An un-named ...

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 artifacts were ...

The only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer's Last Stand at the ... AFP/GETTY The 7th U.S. Cavalry flag – known as a "guidon" for it's swallow-tailed shape – was ...

((iStock)) A second 7th Cavalry guidon was recovered in September ... As for Culbertson's Guidon — or Custer's Last Flag, as Sotheby's has billed it — Woody pointed out that without the ...

Its silk edges are tattered and a patch of red-and-white stripes is missing, but a prominent piece of Americana now boasts a top-notch, made-in-Queens frame. A bullet-torn cavalry flag, a forked ...

Say the name "George Armstrong Custer" and immediately visions usually come to mind of hordes of Native American warriors circling an outnumbered band of desperate U.S. 7th Cavalry troopers.

“Garryowen” was the marching song of the 7th Cavalry and the infamous Lt Colonel George Custer when they massacred native American villages in the all-out campaign in the 1870s to rid the ...

New York (CNN)-- A flag that accompanied Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry into their final battle 134 years ago will be put up for auction, the auction house that will handle ...

Since 1895, the 7th U.S. Cavalry flag -- known as a "guidon" for its swallow-tailed shape -- had been the property of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which paid just $54 for it. Custer and more ...

A second 7th Cavalry guidon was recovered in September ... As for Culbertson's Guidon - or Custer's Last Flag, as Sotheby's has billed it - Woody pointed out that without the Custer mystique ...