George Armstrong Custer was a U.S. military officer and commander who rose to fame as a young officer during the American Civil War. He gained further fame for his post-war exploits against Native Americans in the West. Custer’s death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 – now...
10 Notable Facts About General Custer: With Simon Whistler. Here are ten incidents in the life and death of George Armstrong Custer which contributed to his mythos, and which remain controversial.
Along with George Custer, Confederate general George Pickett is one of the most famous military figures to have finished last in his class at West Point. He ranked 59th out of 59 cadets upon graduation in 1846. Pickett entered the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant and was quickly called ...
The basic facts are that Benteen was facing no Indians along the route Custer had taken if he simply had not dawdled and advanced with some conviction to do his duty. He never would have met Reno. Could he have saved all of Custer’s Command? I doubt it. But it has become somewhat ...
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Philip H. Sheridan was a highly successful U.S. cavalry officer whose driving military leadership in the last year of the American Civil War was instrumental in defeating the Confederate Army. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (
Custer’s Early Years George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley,Ohio, on December 5, 1839. Custer was part of a large extended family, and spent part of his youth inMichigan, with a half-sister and her husband, and would consider the state his adopted home. ...