CAGB Online
- ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR 2026
- UK: £10.00, will entitle members to receive a paper copy of The Crow’s Nest and the quarterly e-newsletters.
- Overseas: (1) $15 USD will entitle members to receive an electronic copy (PDF) of The Crow’s Nest and the quarterly e-newsletters.
- Overseas: (2) $25 USD will entitle members to receive a paper copy of The Crow’s Nest, which will be posted at the International Standard Rate to ensure faster delivery, and the quarterly e–newsletters.
- Applications for membership, contributions to News from the CAGB – E-newsletter, and general inquiries about the CAGB should be sent to the Secretary, Lawrence Sherrington – stilicho10(zero)81@gmail.com – who will be delighted to hear from you.
- COMMITTEE FOR 2026
- Lawrence Sherrington: Chairman and Secretary
- Peter Russell: Vice-chairman and Webmaster (CAGB Online)
- Gary Leonard: Treasurer
- Kevin Galvin: Without Portfolio
'The Crow's Nest' - The Journal of the Custer Association of Great Britain
'The Crow's Nest' 2024, Peter Russell, editor. Cover art, a sketch by George Kush (Canada) made shortly after the centennial anniversary, 1976.
'The Crow's Nest' 2025, Gary Leonard, editor. Cover art, 'Where the Hell is Benteen?', by Mike Donahue (United States).
- EDITORIAL TEAM FOR 2026
- Gary Leonard, The Crow’s Nest, editor
- Lawrence Sherrington, News from the CAGB – E-newsletter, editor
- Peter Russell, News from the CAGB – E-newsletter, editor, and sub-editor of both publications
News from the CAGB - E-newsletter 1/2026
General Custer's Headquarters Guidon. (Artist George Kush)
- In this issue, Peter Russell tells the extraordinary story of how he came to be a founding member of the CAGB and how the Association was conceived. George Kush first describes what Captain Thomas B. Weir told John M. Cooke, a younger brother of Lieutenant William W. Cooke, about what he saw from the vicinity of Weir Point, and, secondly, he provides details about the Indian Wars Campaign Medals. Plus a book review, rare photographs, and other interesting items within its 11 pages. Contributions for 2/2026 should be sent to Lawrence Sherrington by 15 May please.
Fitchburg Historical Society
- Special thanks go to Susan Navarre, Executive Director, Fitchburg Historical Society, Massachusetts, not only for publishing a profusely-illustrated, two-part version of Peter Russell’s article about Private Morris Farrar, Company C, 7th U.S. Cavalry, entitled “A Yankee from the Antipodes,” but also for the short bio of the author which includes a reference to the Custer Association of Great Britain. It has been electronically circulated to around 1,200 subscribers.
781 Main Street, Fitchburg, PO Box 953, Fitchburg, MA 01420, USA.
- ANOTHER DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
- The Layton Hooper Indian Wars Symposium
- When – Saturday, 28 March 2026.
- Where – National Guard Armory, 6858 South Revere Pkwy, Centennial, Colorado.
- Featuring five well-known speakers, including Todd Smith, Paul Hedren, James Mueller, Richard Goddard, and CAGB member Joe Creaden, whose subject is The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Photographic Essay – From the Crow’s Nest to Last Stand Hill.
- Joe is on the Board of Directors and Treasurer/Secretary of AFHA (formerly Order of the Indian Wars).
- Any reports or photographs of this event, the latter of members of the CAGB, would be gratefully received and considered for publication in our quarterly e-newsletter.
Architectural rendering of the new visitor center at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
- SAVE THE DATE: 25th, 26th, and 27th June 2026
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is currently planning events and programming for the 150th Anniversary of the battle. The park is hosting events and activities for all three days. Several members, including Peter Meyer, Bill Rini, Mike Sullivan, and Jim Watson have indicated that they are travelling to Montana to join in this significant commemoration.
- Will you be there?
- LOOKING AHEAD TO 2027
- A personal invitation from U.S. member, Matt Liddic, to the 2027 LBHA Conference in Richmond, Virginia, at the Four Points by Sheraton. Save the date, June 10th to the 13th. The room rate is $145. The focus for 2027 will be Tom Custer’s actions at the battles of Sailors Creek and Five Forks.
- More details to follow.
The Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, Richmond, VA.
The Guidon (1997-2000)
'The Guidon: Journal of British Custeriana', all nine issues from October 1997 to June 2000.
- The Guidon: Journal of British Custeriana, was edited and published by Roger Young in collaboration with Darren Holt, his art consultant. It ran from October 1997 to June 2000. The first issue was limited to 100 copies, although photostats were available. The final issue, of nine, which was published in June 2000, was limited to 200 copies.
- It would be interesting to know how many members have a full set and, if so, what it may be worth.
- If you can add any information about this excellent journal we would like to hear from you.
Winfield Scott Edgerly and, his wife, Grace Cory Blum
Second Lieutenant Winfield Scott Edgerly, 1875, by Dexter B. Vickery, Haverhill, MA. (Courtesy of Nathan Hulick)
Purported to be Grace Cory (nee Blum) Edgerly, 1875, by Dexter B. Vickery, Haverhill, MA. (Courtesy of Nathan Hulick)
- Second Lieutenant Winfield Scott Edgerly almost lost his life on the first day of the Battle of the Little Bighorn [25 June 1876] when, as member of Captain B. Thomas Weir’s Company D, he struggled to mount his frightened horse at [what is now known as] Weir Point when Indians swarmed close by.
- Edgerly and Grace Cory Blum were married in St Paul, MN, on 27 October 1875. They would have been devastated on the death of their only child, Winifred, aged 3 years six months, on 16 February 1885 at Fort Leavenworth, KS. The child’s mortal remains were taken nearly 1,25o miles to Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, New York, to be interred next to her Polish-born maternal grandfather, Louis Blum.
- Brigadier General Winfield Scott Edgerly, died aged 81, in Farmington, NH (his birthplace) 10 September 1927, and Grace, died aged 82, in Washington, D.C., 8 April 1939. Both are buried in Arlington National Cemetery where Grace’s maiden name is shown as ‘Blume’ on an impressive granite monument. Perhaps the good lady pronounced Blum as Blume, which is a plausible explanation.
Frederick William Benteen and Charles Camilus De Rudio
Cabinet card Captain Frederick William Benteen, 1879. (Courtesy of Nathan Hulick)
First Lieutenant Count Charles Camilus De Rudio, wearing a 1872 officer's undress blouse, undated. (Courtesy of Nathan Hulick)
- De Rudio was known to Benteen and his fellow 7th Cavalry officers as “Count No Account” because of his habit of telling what they perceived to be tall tales. Personally, I believe that this impoverished Italian nobleman was unfairly much maligned as many of his stories would have been true – fact often being stranger than fiction!
Founding members of the Custer Association of Great Britain
Founding members, status at 31 December 2025 - Standing (L-R) Neil Gilbert (member), Phil Butler (not known), Arthur Prosser (not known), Tim O'Sullivan (dec'd), Bob Bradley (dec'd), Vince Hawkins (not known), Steve Bartle (not known). Seated (L-R) Peter Russell (Vice-chairman and Webmaster), Lawrence Sherrington (Chairman and Secretary), Francis Taunton (member), Ken Doran (member). Missing, Kevin Galvin (member) who took the photograph, 13 November 1999.