In the loving hands of a wife was The Flag created.
One can behold the intricate stitches which rival a machine work today all from the hands of the little girl who once relied on the phrase,
"Oh poor Libby Bacon, her mother died when she was young, poor little Libby Bacon", to get her out of her studies and chores of sewing.
The wife though would now pride herself in her frugality, buying silk when prices were low and she would stitch for her husband his personal flag which would be baptized in battle, have her embroidered name blown off the bottom by a shell on that first day and see the surrender of Confederate forces and lay in state at Fort Abraham Lincoln as her master died upon the field of the Little Big Horn.
The Flag would see Texas rebellion, South Dakota blizzard, Kansas tornadoes and North Dakota drought. It would fly over most of the what was the United States of the day.
The Flag was sown with pride, joy, love and one can see it in the stitches reflecting all Libby Custer is.
Fittingly this frugal flag of national treasure as one of the most historical and living breathing cloths in history was sold for $896,250.00 at auction almost 131 years to day of her husband's death.
It awaits with other national flags to have an American Museum to great historical flags.
That is the story of The Flag of red and blue bars with crossed white sabers which joined the 1876 Cavlary guidon pictured in beauty and the regimental flag of the 7th Cavalry which resembles so much the modern flag of North Dakota.
*laissez-les prouver avec du temps ce qu'ils admettent avec des mots
