In Popular Culture
- In the Beatles' movie Yellow Submarine, the 7th Cavalry (on horseback) rescues Ringo in the Sea of Monsters.
- The experiences of the 1st and 2nd Battalions at the Battle of Ia Drang in November 1965, were recounted in the book We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore, then a lieutenant colonel and commander of the 1st Battalion, and United Press International correspondent Joseph L. Galloway. The book was later adapted into the film We Were Soldiers, with Mel Gibson as Moore and Barry Pepper as Galloway.
- In the graphic novel Watchmen (1986–1987), in an interlude, the character Adrian Veidt uses the seventh cavalry as a metaphoric antithesis to the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
- In the film The Last Samurai, the main character, Nathan Algren, is a former captain in the 7th Cavalry Regiment and mentions the Battle of Little Bighorn and his hatred of his former commander, Custer.
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