toddy
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Post by toddy on May 15, 2007 22:33:46 GMT -6
 Custer is in the middle Keogh to leaning next to him Adonis Calhoun is far left seated Libbie in front of Custer Cooke on the right, who could mistake his large whiskers  Not sure about you guys but I love this picture of them all together. It was taken at Fort Lincoln in 1875 |
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Post by Diane Merkel on May 15, 2007 23:12:24 GMT -6
According to Larry Frost in The Custer Album:
Left to right, standing in the back row, Mr. Swett of Chicago; Myles W. Keogh, 7th Cavalry; General Custer, 7th Cavalry; Dr. G. E. Lord, 7th Cavalry; Lt. R. E. Thompson, 6th Infantry; seated, Lt. James Calhoun, 7th Cavalry; Capt. Stephen Baker, 6th Infantry; Boston Custer (Gen. Custer's youngest brother); Lt. W. S. Edgerly, 7th Cavalry; Miss Watson; Mrs. James Calhoun; Mrs. Libbie Custer; Dr. H. O. Paulding, M.C., U.S.A.; Mrs. A. E. Smith; Capt. Thomas Weir, 7th Cavalry; Lt. W. W. Cooke, 7th Cavalry; Misses Wadsworth of Monroe; Capt. Tom Custer, 7th Cavalry; Lt. A. E. Smith, 7th Cavalry.
(I've reduced the photo a bit so people won't have to scroll horizontally.)
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toddy
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Post by toddy on May 15, 2007 23:21:40 GMT -6
Oh brilliant Diane...you know it has taken me almost a year to get that information, I should have looked you guys up sooner.
What I would have given to be there to hear what they talked about...the sadness knowing that less than a year later most of them would be dead, tragic
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Post by Melani on May 15, 2007 23:30:35 GMT -6
Left to right: Lt. James Calhoun(seated); Mr. Swett of Chcago (standing); Capt. Stephen Baker, 6th Infantry; Boston Custer (buckskin jacket); Lt. Winfield Scott Edgerly (leaning on elbow); Miss Watson (fan over face); Capt. Myles W. Keogh (leaning on Libbie's chair); Mrs. James Calhoun (Maggie Custer, white shawl, seated on ground next to Miss Watson); Libbie Custer (in seated in chair); Custer (standing, arms folded, in buckskin--in the center of course!); Dr. Holmes O. Paulding, Medical Corps (seated on ground, center front, hat in hands); Mrs. A. E. Smith (seated facing left, white blouse and flowered hat); Dr. G. E. Lord (standing next to Custer, arm out, hat and glasses, looking silly); Capt. Thomas Weir (seated, legs crossed); Lt. William W. Cooke (whiskers!); the Wadsworth sisters (not sure which is which); Lt. R.E. Thompson, 6th Infantry (standing, facing left); Capt. Tom Custer (seated in back, facing right, white hat); Lt. A.E. Smith (seated in chair, facing left). Ten of the twenty people in this picture were at LBH; eight of them were killed.
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Post by Melani on May 15, 2007 23:33:05 GMT -6
Okay, Diane, that was pretty simultaneous, but I guess you type faster than I do. My source is Glory Hunter.
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Post by Tricia on May 16, 2007 9:00:17 GMT -6
Toddy--
You're quite right; it's a great photo. I don't know what it is about Keogh's pose above, but it has always intrigued me; he's the only one looking directly at the camera. The image is also another fine example of the inability/unwillingness of GAC to stand upright (so we can better gauge his actual height) ... and is one of the Wadsworth girls wearing TWC's MOHs? The are both--I believe--wearing the same costumes as in a parlour shot at FAL ...
Welcome to the board! Great to see another Aussie participant.
--t.
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Post by crzhrs on May 16, 2007 9:10:17 GMT -6
Gee, I don't see Benteen!
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Post by harpskiddie on May 16, 2007 9:17:42 GMT -6
He's a bit out of frame [as we photographers say], being back at Fort Rice, sweating over the barbecue pit.
Gordie,
freddy!! don't get sauce on your hair again..............................................................
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Post by elisabeth on May 16, 2007 9:18:38 GMT -6
Tricia, I do believe you're right about the medals. Had never noticed that before. Looks as if he and Cooke had sorted out which Wadsworth girl was whose by the time this was taken, then ...
Yes, you could read a lot into the body-language here. Custer turning away from Libbie, Keogh looking almost proprietorial ... Tempting to get carried away, isn't it!
Welcome, Toddy.
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Post by Diane Merkel on May 16, 2007 9:19:21 GMT -6
Okay, Diane, that was pretty simultaneous, but I guess you type faster than I do. My source is Glory Hunter. At least we both gave the same answers, Melani.  |
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Post by Tricia on May 16, 2007 11:24:58 GMT -6
He's a bit out of frame [as we photographers say], being back at Fort Rice, sweating over the barbecue pit. Gordie, freddy!! don't get sauce on your hair again.............................................................. Naaah ... he's hosting one of his infamous champagne parties! |
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Post by crzhrs on May 16, 2007 12:33:17 GMT -6
Gotta be a Coca-Cola party . . . that's why the President of CC was one of his pall bearers!
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Post by clw on May 17, 2007 7:24:43 GMT -6
I always get a kick out of Libby in that hunt cap. First time I saw it was on Rosanna Arquette in SOMS and thought it odd, then saw this photo and knew where the costume decision came from. Tally ho!
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