Signed by Marcus A. Reno

Heading: (Reno, Marcus A.)
Author:
Title: Signature of Marcus A. Reno on pension report partial document
Place Published: Illinois
Publisher:
Date Published: 1887
Description:

10x13 cm (4x5"); in Optium Museum Acrylic glass frame: 16.2x19.8 cm (6½x8"), paneled with acrylic glass at reverse of frame revealing rubber stamps from U.S. Pensions Office and Supervising Examiner, Illinois District.

Half of a pension report mentioning Waterloo, Indiana, dated Wednesday, June 1 1887. Marcus Albert Reno was a United States career military officer who served in the American Civil War and under George Armstrong Custer in the Great Sioux War against the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne. Reno is most noted for his failure to aid General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Condition Report: Vertical repair to slip along right side, a few pencil and color pencil marks, toning; unexamined out of frame.