Auction Date:2011 Jul 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS signed “G. A. Custer, U.S. Army,” one page, lightly-lined, 8 x 10, June 8, 1872. Letter to the Army and Navy Journal. In full: “Last fall at a time when expecting to remain here during the winter I enclosed a draft for ($21.00) twenty one dollars the amount to be paid for certain papers & periodicals according to your club rates. The papers & periodicals were not sent to me, and I being in Louisville during the winter & until a few days ago where I have access to news agencies, I did not desire them. I have taken my station at this place and if you continue your club proposals, I would like the papers called for in my first letter to be mailed to me at this point. If you have not my list–please enclose me one of your printed prospectus –from which I will select the papers & periodicals desired.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, scattered light toning and soiling, and light show-through from docketing on reverse.
Expecting to remain in Louisville during the winter of 1872, instead, Custer accompanied Russian Grand Duke Alexis to Omaha on what was to become known as The Great Royal Buffalo Hunt, to which he was appointed Grand Master. During this trip, Alexis took such a fondness to Custer that he and his entourage accompanied Custer back to Louisville. On April 13, 1872, the two friends would head to the inaugural day of racing at the Louisiana Jockey Club, where Custer’s horse, Frogtown, went on to win second place. Custer provided the Duke with a lasting companionship while the Russian gained a better understanding of the US. A year later, he journeyed to the Dakota Territory where, in 1876, US troops would face the Lakota, the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho at the Battle of Little Bighorn, a showdown that would become Custer’s Last Stand. A beautifully preserved piece of correspondence from the Civil War general before he was to embark on his last campaign.
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