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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1183

[Custer, George Armstrong.] Forty-Eight envelopes addressed to George Armstrong Custer. From a wide variety of sources. The archivist mentions General McClellan, R. B. Marcy, McClellan´s father-in-law, a Colonel Hall, and others. The letters contained were mailed to Custer in locations including Fort Lincoln, Dakota; West Point, NY; Washington, DC; Elizabethtown, KY; Fort Leavenworth and Ft. Hays, KS; Alexandra, LA; and many others. Also included are the tops of pages from Official West Point Registers for the years 1857, 1858, 1860, and one with no date. A clipped signature that may or may not be the General´s is also included. Varying conditions, all should be carefully examined. Sold as is. No returns. [53]

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