Thanks for the information....I read your LBH board on the guidons and the regimental. I always thought the regimental was packed with the train............. as to whether it was lost, I think the debate goes on. As to its color, I find it hard to believe that the regiment carried a yellow flag into battle that was not even authorized until years after the battle. Custer was flamboyant but I don't think he would have a different regimental than other cavalry units and I guess the proof would be.....if anyone has accounts or photos of other plains units as to what they were carrying at the time.....Gibbon's 2nd Cavalry, Crook's cavalry force, etc., it would be evidence of waht was the standard issue at the time. I can see the regimental being packed if Custer was expecting a big fight combined with his ego of having the regiment go in under his colors.

As I stated before, even historians and artists make mistakes. Remington's painiting of the Last Stand shows Custer in his buckskins(correct although he probably would have peeled down to his shirt) with long hair(I have always read he had it cut short at the time of the battle) and the men are posted on a conical rocky knob in their greatcoats and wearing kepis. There are the remains of a previous snowfall between the rocks. Remingtonm was a great and authentic painter, but he got it wrong.
I made some in my earlier posts, but thanks for the info on the soldier's statements and your message board. No one has answered my question though.....did they really find his personal flag that previously went up for auction or was it a Civil War era one.

Philip Duer