Carte de visite portrait photograph of George Armstrong Custer, as Brevet Major General

by George Armstrong Custer

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Three quarters length, seated. 1 vols. 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches. On a contemporary but unmarked mount. Item #374936 Superb image of the still-controversial Custer, the boy-general, gallant Union cavalry officer, ambitious, publicity hungry Indian fighter, and in many ways the U.S. soldier who epitomized the posture of the United States in its Westward Expansion until he himself was killed, with his command, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in

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