His book of signals

[Lt JamesJack Garland Sturgis]

Of interest to this board I hope. A few years back at an estate sale in Minneapolis.
I found a book from a west point cadet to another west point cadet From John Baldwin to my very dear friend James G. Sturgis dated June 11th 1875 West Point New York.

This is interesting a 1873 published book on military signals,given I imagine as a remembrance and graduation gift from a "bunkie" from West point.

He undoubtedly carried this to Fort Lincoln his new posting as a young and freshly minted second Lt.

[Lt Sturgis]

Sorry about this post I am unfamiliar with threads. And format is a bit messed up. As an aside I drove from Minneapolis a few weeks back to an Antiques Roadshow event in Bismarck N.Dakota and brought this book. I showed it to the "military expert" he never heard of Jack Sturgis and sent me to the books and manuscripts appraiser, they never heard of Sturgis either. I thought that my 10 hour drive would bear more interest that that. In fact as it was Bismarck I was dumbfounded that they would know nothing of the history of the town they were in.

[Scout7]

Speaking of Roadshow Antiques...they had a fella on there who had a trunk of items belonging to Corporal Geore Brown, who was killed with Custer's battilion, including 7th Cav. documents, photos, letters from the Black Hills. value; $25,000......Check it out.

Go to the Roadshow Antiques website....type in George Brown [or Custer] and the episode story will pop up.

Scout

[El Crab]

Scout7 said:

Speaking of Roadshow Antiques...they had a fella on there who had a trunk of items belonging to Corporal Geore Brown, who was killed with Custer's battilion, including 7th Cav. documents, photos, letters from the Black Hills. value; $25,000......Check it out.

Go to the Roadshow Antiques website....type in George Brown [or Custer] and the episode story will pop up.

Scout

Interesting. George C. Brown was a corporal in E Company. Upon reading the site, I figured it was probable that he was killed with Reno. You know, the cachet of being killed at Custer's Last Stand and the usual statement that 265 soldiers died "with" Custer, lumping every fatality in as if it was just one battle. But, as it turns out, he did die with Custer's battalion.

Which leads me to wonder, if it was a trunk from a soldier who died on the Reno/Benteen side of the fight, would it be worth less? Or would, say, a Springfield carbine linked to a soldier killed with Reno be worth less than one that was linked to a trooper who died with Custer? I'd guess yes, but having a vast interest in the subject, it would. It'd be interesting to see what an appraiser would say on the subject.