Black Hills Expedition (1874)
Part of the Sioux Wars
Date July 2, 1874 – August 30, 1874
Location Dakota Territory and Montana Territory
Belligerents
United States
Commanders and leaders
United States George A. Custer
United States Frederick D. Grant
Units involved
7th United States Cavalry Regiment
Strength
~1,200 Soldiers and Civilians
Casualties and losses
1 killed
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Sioux Wars
The Black Hills Expedition was a United States Army expedition in 1874 led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer that set out on July 2, 1874 from modern day Bismarck, North Dakota, which was then Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota.
