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GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER, Assigned to 7th Cavalry

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Scarce Order Establishing the Seventh Cavalry and Assigning Custer to his Command!

(GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER).
“General Orders No. 92,” issued July 28, 1866, 29 pages, 4.5” x 7” disbound booklet, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, D.C., Choice Extremely Fine+. An act in which the “Organization of Regiments by which the Military Peace Establishment is Increased and Fixed.” The orders were issued by First section, on title page, reads: "The two additional regiments of Cavalry, composed of white men, will be the 7th and 8th Regiments of Cavalry." It then lists the field officers of each regiment, including "Custer, George A." as Lieutenant Colonel of the Seventh. The order also establishes two regiments of cavalry "composed of colored men," and several regiments of infantry, with assignments for such notables as Nelson Miles, George Stoneman, Samuel Heintzelman, and Thomas Crittenden. The United States military establishment was undergoing a major reorganization, as the focus of operations shifted away from the South, and forces were redeployed to the front in a new war--a 25-year battle for control of the American frontier. Scarce! The first example we have offered!

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