Custer, Fellow Officers and Friends 401

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Fort Abraham Lincoln Following the Yellowstone Expedition, Custer was assigned the command of Fort Abraham Lincoln, D.T. The 7th Cavalry arrived September 23, 1873. Custer, donning the "long hair" which became legendary among the Indians he fought and the men he led, poses in front of the Custer home with many of the officers who fell with him at the Battle of Little Bighorn.