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...