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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1158

Custer, George Armstrong. 1) 2 ½" x 3 3/4" sepia print of D. S. Bacon. Mounted on a card, with shaved corners. This was perhaps the Judge´s calling card given Custer when he was formally introduced to his future son-in-law in November of 1862. "Hon. D. S. Bacon / Monroe, Michigan / 1862." Custer married Elizabeth Clift Bacon on February 9, 1864. Both Elizabeth and her father were not initially impressed with him, but that would change with his promotion to the rank of brevet brigadier general. 2) Envelope said to have once contained a letter written by Custer asking her father for her hand in marriage (see archivists notation in pencil at left). "Hon. D. S. Bacon / Monroe / Michigan" written in ink on the front of the envelope, all in Custer´s distinctive hand. Minor stains, but otherwise Very Fine. 3) Similar, once containing a letter thanking the Judge for his consent (per penciled notation of archivist). [3]

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