The blue-and-gold regimental standard of the 7th Cavalry remained with the pack train during the battle.

Each company carried a stars and stripes guidon. This one is similar to those carried in the battle.

Chartered by the Government for the campaign of 1876, the Far West performed important service in transporting troops, supplies, and dispatches. With Reno's wounded on board, the boat steamed from the mouth of the Bighorn to Bismark, 710 miles, in 54 hours—a record unsurpassed in steamboating on the Upper Missouri.

On October 10, 1877, the remains of Bvt. Maj. Gen. George Armstrong Custer, lieutenant colonel of the 7th Cavalry, were buried with full military honors in the cemetery near the Old Cadet Chapel at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Today, a large granite monument marks the grave.