Author: Whittaker, Frederick, Brevet Captain Sixth New York Veteran Cavalry,
Title: Popular Life Gen. George A. Custer, Major-Gen. of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army & Lt Col 7th Cavalry.
Description: NY, Sheldon & Co, (1876). G ex-library. "Few men had more enemies than Custer, and no man deserved them less." from the author's Preliminary Remarks. Maroon binding with gilt and decorative bands. Library markings, edge wear. An overall lovely copy of this glowing biography of Gen. Custer. "This book aims to give to the world the life of a great man.beginning at the foot of the social ladder, with no advantages beyond those, physical and mental.he rose to the top. His upward career was so rapid and phenomenal in its success as to deceive the world in general as to the means by which he rose, and none more completely for a time than the present writer of his biography.It is only after a careful and complete examination of the character of theman, and the perusal of a mass of private correspondence.after the unconscious revelation by himself of his inmosts thoughts and aspirations, that the author has learned aright to appreciate the personality of the subject of this biography.".

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