Yes, I understand the military system of a warrant authorizing a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (temporary, is how it is written in the Army records), without receiving the pay of the higher rank except when actually serving in that role. I just pointing out in the last post, was that Custer lost the rank of Major-General at wars end, the warrant was withdrawn by the War Department, and was a Captain, receiving a Captain’s pay. Now, if he received another warrant (brevet) after the war, I don’t recall reading that in the O. R. Reports. If you have a record of a warrant being issued after the war, I’d like to see it and then too, it may have been issued after the Indian killed him. Sotta like Harland Sanders, has Colonel Harland Sanders on his marker.

96 men deserted the Custer in Kansas alone, I guess they didn’t want to follow a glory hound to their death like those that remained with him.

Thanks for the kind offer to send the photo by mail, I may take you up on it but I have ordered the books for loan from the library. I’m interested in see W. A. Graham sources so I can compare them to the originals.

The Ohio River Vally war against the Miami and Black Hawk War is more interesting then this one, it has been beaten to death, sorta speak.
So unless you got more on Custer’s flags, I’m done. I’ve debunked Paxson’s yellow flag and Captain Godfrey never, in the articles written by him that I have read, mentions the color of the 7th Cav. Standard. So on to Graham and his sources. I'll post the picture here once I get them.

Happy Trails!
Tom Martin