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Post by custerstillstands on Nov 11, 2005 9:16:03 GMT -6
Fascinating !
I tried to find Libbie in the photographs, but it's not very easy... Perhaps she's sitting far right... Very, very interesting files !
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Post by Diane Merkel on Nov 11, 2005 9:23:06 GMT -6
I just put a link to a higher resolution photo up and hope it helps. I'm not sure either. The woman you chose is a possibility although her jaw seems too square. I was thinking perhaps the woman a few rows in back of her, in black, with the large brimmed hat.
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Post by custerstillstands on Nov 11, 2005 11:28:35 GMT -6
The problem is that Libbie doesn't always look the same on the photographs (remember the 1872 photographs in front of the Fort Lincoln house, she really looks different than usual). I'll find the solution ! :-)
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Post by Scout on Nov 12, 2005 18:11:28 GMT -6
A fascinating subject....let's remember that Custer was at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. I'm certain he met Robert E. Lee. Custer would have known a number of Confederate generals form West Point. Stonewall Jackson was an instructor there...Jeb Stuart and on the Union side just about all of them including old George McClellan. I'm not so certain he met Calamity Jane, regardless of what she claimed. I don't believe he had the chance to meet Annie Oakley. Great Thread!
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Post by Tricia on Nov 12, 2005 20:48:19 GMT -6
A fascinating subject....let's remember that Custer was at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. I'm certain he met Robert E. Lee. Custer would have known a number of Confederate generals form West Point. Stonewall Jackson was an instructor there...Jeb Stuart and on the Union side just about all of them including old George McClellan. I'm not so certain he met Calamity Jane, regardless of what she claimed. I don't believe he had the chance to meet Annie Oakley. Great Thread! Scout-- Jeeze ... I totally forgot about the Civil War junk! Slap me aside the head. In addition, he would have known Grant and Sherman, not to mention Meade. Perhaps he would have known future president James Garfield, who was, I believe a brigadier general from Ohio. Could be wrong, though ... Custer also kissed up to Secretary of State Seward and representatives from the Mexican Independence movement in 1866. The Mexico deal, which would have called for him to raise a cavalry of (I think) 1000 men, fell through because State required he resign his commission in the US Army ... Does anyone think it's possible that GAC might have met a very young TR? Certainly, TR had a bit of a hero worship going for the Boy General. Granted TR was only four when the ACW ended, but I've got to think that in the social circles of Manhattan, GAC eventually met up with some Republicans ... Theodore Roosevelt, senior? What a meeting that would have been! Regards, Leyton McLean |
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Post by crzhrs on Nov 14, 2005 6:29:53 GMT -6
I believe TR praised Custer years later after the LBH.
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