Military officer (1842–1876) and Custer loyalist who was killed in action as Captain of Company F at Little Bighorn. Partly-printed DS, signed “Ge. W. Yates,” one page, 10.25 x 8.25, December 19, 1866. List of Quartermaster’s stores transferred to Fort Sedgwick in the Colorado Territory. Items tranferred are 540 pounds of corn, 542 pounds of hay, two gunny sacks, and one-eighth cord of wood. Signed at the conclusion by Yates, with his rank written under his signature. In fine condition, with light wrinkling along two vertical folds and a hint of faint soiling. Yates was killed during the Battle of the Little Bighorn and fell near Custer. According to some accounts, he is said to have taken command of the battalion after the initial fighting at Medicine Tail Coulee, where Custer may have been wounded. Other accounts suggest that he commanded a wing of Custer's battalion, composed of Companies E and F.
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