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Auction: 336 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1862

Custer, George Armstrong. Custer Autographed Envelope. About 10" x 4". Postmarked Leavenworth, Kansas, ca. 1867, with the address written in brown ink by George Armstrong Custer to "Mrs. General Custer / Care of Charles Kendall Esqre / Topeka / Kansas." Printed "Headquarters Department of the Missouri / OFFICIAL BUSINESS" in the upper right corner beneath an uncut strip of seven three cent U.S. postage stamps. Two five cent stamps are affixed near the top left corner. The left end of the envelope is missing and the upper right corner is crumpled, but the Custer signature and the address are quite attractive.
Libby Bacon's cousin, Mary Richmond, married Charles Kendall, and the couple moved to Topeka, Kansas. In February of 1867, Custer joined Major General Winfield Scot Hancock's regiment, headquartered at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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