Saturday, June 23, 2018

George A. "Autie" Custer - Photos

Upon admittance to West Point

After two years at West Point

Civil War portrait by Matthew Brady


His first grizzly  1874 - shot first by Custer, then by Bloody Knife (left)
and William Ludlow   (right)

With Russian Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich
in 1872

Custer and wife at Fort Abraham Lincoln in 1874

Custer in civilian dress, 1876

In the Black Hills, 1874 - Custer sitting; Sioux-Ree scout Bloody Knife
pointing at map, Crow scout Curley standing at shoulder

Custer with elk kill in 1872 - wearing his
buckskin jacket.  It's rumored he was
wearing it at the Little Bighorn...


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