Custer 1865 CDV/ Civil War. The CDV measures 2 ½" x 4". This CDV was auctioned at Cowan's in 2009 with the description. George Armstrong Custer Period Copy CDV. A cdv portrait of George Custer as Major General, most likely a period copy, with no studio mark. Illustrated in Katz' Custer in Photographs (K-74), the original portrait taken May, 1865, by Mathew Brady & Co. Even toning to carte; light staining.