Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG.) Miscellaneous Custeriana. Group of 31 items relating to Custer or his 7th Cavalry Regiment. Vp, 1865-1942

Additional Details

Including: A letter to Custer from W. Morgan concerning the regimental band, 1868 Autograph Letter Signed by Custer's father Emanuel H. Custer, 1889 Letters to Custer's niece Clara Custer, 1890 Partial envelope franked by James G. Blaine and addressed to Custer Printed broadside "Congratulatory order from General Custer" issued 9 April 1865 Substantial research letters on Custer from William A. Falconer, 1921, Thomas B. Twesten, 1926, Katherine N. Nims, 1931, and Thomas B. Donaldson, 1942 Printed sheet music including "Requiem to the Memory of Gen. Geo. A. Custer" by Charles Glover, and "Gen. George A. Custer Funeral March" by Charles Kinkel, both 1876 Carte-de-visite photograph of Maj. William Thompson, who retired from the 7th just months before Little Bighorn 7th Cavalry inspection report and tobacco return, 1878 Autograph Letter Signed by Alfred H. Terry, Custer's commanding officer, 1883 Unsigned two-page typescript carbon titled "General Custer was not a Suicide" 1915 photograph of what purports to be a battle flag found at Little Bighorn in 1876 and other papers.