After decades in storage, Custer flag hits auction

BILLINGS, Mont. — Frayed, torn and maybe even a little bloodstained, the only U.S. flag not captured or lost during George Armstrong Custer’s "Last Stand" at the Battle of Little Bighorn sold for $54 when it first surfaced in the 1890s. On Friday, the swallow-tailed 7th U.S. Cavalry flag, known as a "guidon," is expected to bring up to $5 million at an auction at Sotheby’s in New York.