Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...
In 1861, Cadet George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876) graduated last in his class at West Point. Four years later, when the Civil War ended, he was a major general commanding a division of cavalry.
It is easy to forget that Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer did anything of significance before the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. So gaudily iconic is his last stand—in which he and five companies of ...
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Lieutenant Colonel Custer and US Army troops shown with Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes on the Little Bighorn, Montana, battlefield, as rendered by illustrators. (Wikimedia Commons) By ...
MONROE, Mich. – Dozens of people are saying it’s beyond time for the statue of Civil War commander General Armstrong Custer in Monroe to finally come down. “All of us feel like if this is up then we ...
It was with great disappointment that I discovered that my birthday marked the Battle of Little Big Horn and the death of General Custer. Even greater disappointment came the more I learned about ...
General Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago, but for descendants of the Battle of Little Bighorn’s two protagonists the fight continues. Retiree George Armstrong Custer IV, aged 70, is now facing ...
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