CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, General. Autograph note signed ("GA Custer") as Brevet Major General Commanding, to an unidentified senior officer, "Head Quarters Cavalry," 16 February 1865. 1 page, 12mo, attractively matted with an early engraved portrait and a color lithograph, glazed in a giltwood frame. DATED TWO MONTHS BEFORE APPOMATTOX: "Respectfully forwarded attention invited to the endorsement of Brig. Gen Gibbs Commanding 1st Cav. Div. which is recommended..." -- GIBBS, ALFRED, General. Autograph letter signed to Brig. Gen. W. Merritt, Commander of 1st Cavalry Div., Headquarters, 5 January 1864. 2 pages, 8vo, marked "Confidential and veracious," a fine letter with a sarcastic account of the search by a whole detachment for a signal corps officer lost on Cedar Run Mountain. (2) (2)

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CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, General. Autograph note signed ("GA Custer") as Brevet Major General Commanding, to an unidentified senior officer, "Head Quarters Cavalry," 16 February 1865. 1 page, 12mo, attractively matted with an early engraved portrait and a color lithograph, glazed in a giltwood frame. DATED TWO MONTHS BEFORE APPOMATTOX: "Respectfully forwarded attention invited to the endorsement of Brig. Gen Gibbs Commanding 1st Cav. Div. which is recommended..." -- GIBBS, ALFRED, General. Autograph letter signed to Brig. Gen. W. Merritt, Commander of 1st Cavalry Div., Headquarters, 5 January 1864. 2 pages, 8vo, marked "Confidential and veracious," a fine letter with a sarcastic account of the search by a whole detachment for a signal corps officer lost on Cedar Run Mountain. (2) (2)