Planters National Bank of Louisville counter check, 8 x 3, filled out and signed by Custer, "G. A. Custer," payable to cash for $450, October 3, 1872. The printed text of the check has been modified in another hand, changing the bank name to "Planters" and place to "Louisville," and adding "J. H. Fullerton & Co., order," to the recipient field. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light staining, a couple of small holes, and paper loss to the lower right corner (close to, but not impinging on, the signature).
Of historical note, Custer’s 7th Cavalry was stationed at Taylor Barracks, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, from October 1871 to March of 1873 to put an end to illegal distilleries and to restrain the Ku Klux Klan and the bushwhackers. Not long after writing and signing this check, Custer and his men were re-stationed in the West, ordered to the Dakota Territory to help protect surveyors from the Sioux as they were laying out the route for the proposed Northern Pacific Railroad. He and most of his men would die at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
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