Image ID: AZHM

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1865.11

Equipment:

chair; riding crop

Locations & Lines:

Austin TX; Texas

Military Units:

US Army

Persons:

Eliza; Custer (Elizabeth C. B.); Custer (George A.); Custer (Thomas W.); Custer (Emanuel); Greene (Jacob); Kendall (Charles); Richmond (Mary); Richmond (Rebecca)

Structures & Establishments:

Texas Asylum for the Blind (Austin TX)

Sources:

Library of Congress

Library of Congress says: Gen. and Mrs. Custer in winter quarters, Virginia, last year of war. [On caption card: Col. Tom Custer at left, Father Custer reading, two staff officers at front.]

Katz, Custer In Photographs, p71 says: Custer’s headquarters, Blind Asylum, Austin, Texas, November 1865, by unknown photographer. Identified, from left, are: Charles Kendall, two unidentified men, Rebecca Richmond, Mary Richmond, Colonel Thomas W. Custer, Major General George A. Custer, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer, Eliza, father Emanuel Custer, Colonel Jacob Greene, and an unidentified person.

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