Subject: Document - Custer
Period: 1876 (published)
Publication: H.R. Doc. 1, 44th Congress, 2nd Session
Color: Black & White
Size:
6 x 9 inches
15.2 x 22.9 cm
This 518 page volume contains the first official report of the Battle at Little Big Horn (pages 30-35): “The terrible calamity that befell Lieutenant-Colonel Custer’s column makes it important to adopt exact official language, and I give General Terry’s exact words, under date of June 27….” Also included are the detailed reports of Major Reno, General Miles, General Terry and others (pages 439-487, 498-518). The report also includes 9 plates, 8 of which are colored, of the accoutrements of Union uniforms. Disbound.
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Condition: B+
Contents are mostly clean with some light dampstaining to the folding plates and margins of the text. Text block is intact but lacks covers.