Photography of General George A. Custer and HQ staff - 1864.
This is a framed photographic copy of an original imperial albumen print of General Custer and staff at the headquarters of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade in Stevensburg, Virginia in February or March of 1864. The headquarters was located along the southern side of Germania Road adjacent to a farmhouse near Stevensburg where Custer named his winter headquarters encampment, "Camp Libbie," after his fiancé Elisabeth Bacon.
It clearly shows the young general's 2nd Personal Guidon, with his battle honors, which was replaced by the 3rd Personal Guidon, now ZFC0490. The original photograph is at the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument in Montana.
The framed photo is captioned, "G.A. Custer, (seated on porch steps of farmhouse), Shown with Staff and Others, Circa, February 1864."
The personal guidon shown in the photo was General George Custer's second personal guidon, used from October of 1863 to June of 1864.
Provenance: Acquired by purchase from the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument.
ZFC Noteworthy Flag
Item is Framed
Sources:
Howard, Charles Raymond, UNCLE JACOB'S CIVIL WAR, 30 April 2012, from; http://www.performance-vision.com/howard-docs/tran-jlg-biography.htm
Lawrence A. Frost, The Custer Album, A Pictorial Biography of General George A. Custer, Bonanza Books, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1984 reprint of 1964 edition.
D. Mark Katz, Custer In Photographs, Yo-Mark Production Company, Inc., Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1985.
Image Credits:
Zaricor Flag Collection
