It's up for auction and Booktryst discusses it.
From the piece...
It is an intimate, personal relic of a tragic, chapter in nineteenth century America., the possession of one of the most colorful - and controversial - military personalities of his time through ours. Custer’s Last Stand, firmly a part of the American David v. Goliath heroic mythos, proved to be the Native-Americans' last heroic military triumph in their struggle to remain on their homelands and practice their way of life. The inevitable came soon enough for the U.S., too soon for the Great Nations of the Dakotas.
This Bible was clearly of great importance to Custer. After a somewhat wild youth of dubious faith and much drinking, he became a devout Christian during his experience of the Civil War. He swore off whiskey and committed himself to God.
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