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Custer's command was organized into twelve companies, one of which was assigned to guard the pack train. 268. Soldiers and attached personnel of the Seventh Cavalry killed in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The Seventh Cavalry lost 16 officers, 242 troopers, and 10 scouts. Included among the dead were Custer, all of the personnel in the five-company battalion under his immediate command, and 18 men who fought in the southern part of the battlefield (valley and hilltop engagements in the Reno-Benteen Battlefield).
Between 46,000 and 51,000 Americans were casualties in the three-day battle. This includes soldiers killed, wounded, and captured or missing. It's safe to assume some of th â¦ e men who were missing could have died and not found.  The Union: 3,155 men killed  The Confederacy: 4,708 killed  If you are considering casualties to only be those men who died on the battlefield, the total would be 7,863.