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DESCRIBING CAVALRY DRILLS AT WEST POINT CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG. Autograph Letter Signed, "G. A. Custer," to Minnie St. Clair, a flirtatious letter
DESCRIBING CAVALRY DRILLS AT WEST POINT CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG. Autograph Letter Signed, "G. A. Custer," to Minnie St. Clair, a flirtatious letter scolding her for not writing and threatening to punish her when he sees her again in Monroe, writing about life as a cadet at West Point with details on the cavalry exercises he is learning, describing ice skating on the Hudson, and asking for gossip from back home. With a postscript at the top of the first page Signed "Armstrong" apologizing for the envelope [not present]. 8 pages, 2 folded 8vo sheets; minor staining on one, usual folds. West Point, 19 January 1859
- Notes: "... You will be surprised when I tell you that I have been looking for the answer to my last letters... and I have been disappointed so long that I had almost given up all hope of hearing from you... I supposed that you had received my letter and that some of those young Buffalo gents had stolen your heart and consequently you had not time to spare a few minutes in writing to me. I intended to wait until I came to Monroe and then I was going to give you the best scolding that you have had for some time, but I think you must have a great opinion of me to think that I would begin or ask you to correspond with me and then drop it without any reason whatever... when I visit the city of flowers next summer I [will] ask you to pay damages... are you not frightened?... At the examination which has just closed twenty two cadets were pronounced deficient by the Academic Board and discharged among those was a grandson of Martin Van Buren. For the past six months I have been studying Rhetoric, French, Descriptive Geometry, Analytical Geometry, Shades Shadows & Perspective, and in addition I have had cavalry exercises or riding lessons. We have an hour in the afternoon to ride... we run races jump ditches and bars or hurdles... mount and dismount our horses while they are going at a gallop, ride on one side of our horses or rather hang on one side and fire pistols under the necks of our horses at a mark and do this at a full gallop..."
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