Battle of the Little Bighorn

White marble markers inside the fence on Last Stand Hill at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana, with the marker for George Armstrong Custer picked out in black at the center. Here, on June 25, 1876, Lakota and Cheyenne warriors destroyed the five companies of the 7th Cavalry under Custer's direct command. In 1890 the Army set more than 240 such markers where the cavalrymen fell, so the scatter of stones down the slope traces the end of the fight. A granite memorial raised in 1881 stands just above.