Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-10

The Custer Family.
A letter from Columbus, Ohio,
refers to the family of the late Gen.
eral Custer as follows:
The fate of General Custer is
sadly felt here, where his brother,
Brice W., has lived for many years.
Boston, aged %, Foragemaster,
and Thomas, a Lieutenant, aged
%, both unmarried, are the broth
ers killed. The brother-in-law
killed was a Captain, and is the
husband of General Clusters only
sister, who, with Mrs. Custer, are
with the expedition. Mrs. Custer
was the only child of Judge Bacon,
Of Monroe City, Michigan, where
the parents Of General Custer also
reside. His parents are old and
feeble, both being upward of sew
enty. His mother and all the fam
lily were devotedly attached to the
General, and his awful death will
doubtless kill his mother. AS a
son, he honored his father and
mother to the full letter and spirit
of the law given Oh Mount Sinai.
But, alas !. his days we're not as
long in the land as a nation hoped
they would be. He had no chill
dren. His brother-in-law had no
children. Mrs. Custer never would
leave her husband. She had irav-
eled 800 miles with him on a pony,
slept with him in ambulances and
in tents, to be near him. When
duty called him to battle, her dis
tress was Eext to the bOttomless
depths Of anxiety until he returned.
New York SUM-
THE DAsHING CUSTER.
General Custer was brave, even
to recklessness, as the manner of his
death showed. He was a bold,
dashing officer, who did not know
what lear, and not always what dis
erection was. His success was a rule
without exceptions, and his pre-
gress an advance almost without
pauses. He was the youngest
Brigadisr and the youngest Major
[ General in the army. Gle never
t lost a gun or a color" and "cap.
,, tured more guns, flags and prison.
' ers than any other general not al
/ army commander" and these gum
It and flags "were all taken in actor
q and field service" His persona
appearance was singular. Colone
Newhall, who wrote "With Sheri
dan in Lees Last Campaign" de
. scribes him thus: "Custer of thu
a golden locks, his broad sombrerC
6 turned up from his hard bronzet
d face, the ends of his crimson crava
floating over his shoulder, golc
galore spangling his jacket-sleeyes
d a pistol in his boot, jangling spur
on his heels, and a ponderous clay
more swinging at his side, a will
e daredevil of a general, and a prince
g Of advance guards, quick to see an,
act" While he fought Brilliant
! and bravely, he does not seem t
have been a soldier capable of rea
generalship. As a subordinat
ID working under sympathetic dlret
n ton he did his best. He died as h
a lived-fghting his hardest and a
$ the head of his men.
His wife, a niece of Senate
Ohristiancy, survives him, but h
leaves no children. His contribu
ID tons to the magazines continue
N up to the present. His book, an
% Life on the Palms." appeared tn.
Of year, and the last number of tn
id Galaxy contained an article givin
st his experience with the Sioux j
~ the Yellowstone expedition Of 1877
1e GRANT RESPONSIBLE.
1T We hold General Grant respons
y bic for this horrible massacre, an
be- arraign him before the people d
account of it. 1t is the direct COZ
=. sequence and fruit Of the vile sy.
rs, tenn of plundering the Indiar
81 which has grown up under his pa.
70 ronage, and the greed of none
of which he has encouraged in I'll
of agents of the Government VIII
deal with these outraged savage
There was no need of it. TheS
slaughtered soldiers were the inn,
cent victims of an Indian polio