This engraving of Custer's final battle is credited to Alfred Waud, who was a noted battlefield artist during the Civil War. Waud was not present at the Little Bighorn, of course, but he had drawn Custer on a number of occasions during the Civil War.
In Waud's depiction of the action at the Little Bighorn, 7th Cavalry troopers fall around him while Custer surveys the scene with steely determination.