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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Earlier in his Army career, Custer attended the Confederate surrender at Appomattox (as a Union officer). He decided to keep the white dish towel that Lee used as a flag of truce (aka the true last and final Confederate flag), as a souvenir. Custer's wife bequeathed that dish towel to the Smithsonian quite a bit later.