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Post by Diane Merkel on Aug 13, 2007 15:13:16 GMT -6
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Post by Melani on Aug 14, 2007 1:03:58 GMT -6
Interesting--but I don't believe Custer was a cadet when he started courting Libbie--he was a lieutentant. He finally got to marry her when he was a general.
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Post by harpskiddie on Aug 14, 2007 10:25:26 GMT -6
Okay. This is rather weird. I have the same Paxson print, signed by the grandson, framed virtually identically by me, and a mandella which appears to be the same as that hanging under the print [from the Running Horse Trading Post in Midvale Utah], right down to the color of the rabbit skin, and although they are not in the same relative positions any longer [the print is no longer on a wall], they used to be.
It goes without saying that I don't know Steve Alexander and have never seen a photo of his home before. And usually I would have skipped over this thread, since I'm not into re-enacting or re-enactors.
Gordie, wait! what's that signpost up ahead? doodoodoodoodoodoodoo...............................................
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Post by Tricia on Aug 14, 2007 11:09:57 GMT -6
Interesting--but I don't believe Custer was a cadet when he started courting Libbie--he was a lieutentant. He finally got to marry her when he was a general. You're absolutely right, Melani. I can think of only one time (after WP) where GAC went clean-shaven and that was in the late-summer and fall of 1864--well after he and Libbie got married. I believe he'd been sent home on sick leave ... and he looks sick. There are just some guys who need facial hair and GAC was one of them. But not only is Steve a re-enactor, he's an actor ... which gives him a certain amount of license, I suppose. It's kind of like when he wore his major general's long tunic to the banquet at North Platte--when GAC had been an lieutenant colonel for almost six years, and supposedly, it was no longer allowed to wear brevet ranks on one's shoulder straps. I was told (with a smile), "When did you know Custer to follow the rules?" Hmmm ... --t.
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Post by mwkeogh on Aug 14, 2007 11:55:30 GMT -6
Interesting--but I don't believe Custer was a cadet when he started courting Libbie--he was a lieutentant. He finally got to marry her when he was a general. You're absolutely right, Melani. I can think of only one time (after WP) where GAC went clean-shaven and that was in the late-summer and fall of 1864--well after he and Libbie got married. I believe he'd been sent home on sick leave ... and he looks sick. There are just some guys who need facial hair and GAC was one of them. But not only is Steve a re-enactor, he's an actor ... which gives him a certain amount of license, I suppose. It's kind of like when he wore his major general's long tunic to the banquet at North Platte--when GAC had been an lieutenant colonel for almost six years, and supposedly, it was no longer allowed to wear brevet ranks on one's shoulder straps. I was told (with a smile), "When did you know Custer to follow the rules?" Hmmm ... --t. I was with Steve shortly after he shaved his 'stache and did the West Point thing. I'm not sure he did it because of his impending marriage to Sandy, tho I suppose it might have been a factor. From what he told me at the time, he had decided to shave his locks after he managed to acquire an authentic period uniform from West Point and had thus arranged a speaking engagement as Cadet Custer. He also wished to have his photo taken as a clean shaven cadet while he was still young enough to pull it off.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Aug 14, 2007 14:56:40 GMT -6
Thanks, keogh. That makes a lot more sense. I was wondering if the reporter got a couple of stories confused.
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Post by KarlKoz on Aug 15, 2007 6:54:33 GMT -6
Maybe they got the Custer-as-a-courting-cadet from "They Died With Their Boots On"
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Post by Melani on Aug 15, 2007 14:53:48 GMT -6
Maybe they got the Custer-as-a-courting-cadet from "They Died With Their Boots On" It's always nice when a reporter actually does his homework. Or at least checks on details with his source.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Aug 15, 2007 15:41:23 GMT -6
You are probably right, Karl!
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Post by Tricia on Aug 28, 2007 9:13:34 GMT -6
Supposedly, GAC donned his cadet's uniform when he proposed to Libbie in 1863. That said, I still don't think he shaved his mustache!
--t.
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Post by strange on Sept 14, 2007 17:53:58 GMT -6
Custer looks like a funny Oompa Loompa without his mustache! I swear they stole his look! The hair helps out Custer when he's thinner, but it also makes him look smaller when he's big! I put up a stupid poll that no body answered where I asked people to vote on famous people the general resembled. I'm in movies so I know for a fact that Stallone is as slender and muscular as Custer and that the way his size comes off is mostly tricks, unless sly is pushing roids. Robert Deniro has passed himself off as a muscle man before, but that chiseled frame he donned in Taxi Driver is only like 162 pounds tightly packaged. People often have stated Custer at 165, but my tough grand pappy was that size in the war and Custer is much bigger than my grandpa by at least 10 or 15 pounds.
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