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    Here's a link to ACW photos at the Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

    Here's a picture of Lieutenant George Custer in 1862. One year later, at the age of 23, he would be leading Wolverines as a brigadier general.

    "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3

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    he looks old for 22.

    IIRC he went at one swoop from O-3 to O-7, talk about a hell of a OPR
    There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov

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    • #3
      Great pictures,thank you for the link...very,very interesting

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