Popular Life of Gen. George A. Custer (Classic Reprint): Major-General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U. S. ... Seventh U. S. Cavalry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Whittaker, Frederick

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ISBN 10: 1330476298 ISBN 13: 9781330476291

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Popular Life of Gen. George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U. S. Cavalry

Eorge armstrong custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, December 5, 1839. New Rumley is a group of houses, an Old established settlement, in Harrison County, on the border Of Pennsylvania, and peopled from thence early in the last century. It is a small place, not set down on any but very large scale maps, and most of the population of the township is scattered in farm houses about the country. The family history, gleaned from the family Bible, is plain and simple. It is that of an honest group of hard workers, not ashamed of work, and it shows that the stock of which the future general came was good, such as made frontiersmen and pioneers in the last century.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Popular Life of Gen. George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U. S. Cavalry

This book aims to give to the world the life of a great man, one of the few really great men that America has produced. Beginning at the foot of the social ladder, with no advantages beyond those, physical and mental, given to him by the GOD who made him, he rose to the top. His upward career was so rapid and phenomenal in its success as to deceive the world in general as to the means by which he rose, and none more completely for a time than tho present writer of bis biography. Much of Custer's success has been attributed to good fortune, while it was really the result of a wonderful capacity for hard and energetic work, and a rapidity of intuition which is seldom found apart from military genius of the highest order. It is only after a careful and complete examination of the character of the man, and the perusal of a mass of private correspondence, beginning in his days of obscurity, after the unconscious revelation by himself of his inmost thoughts and aspirations, that the author has learned aright to appreciate the personality of the subject of this biography. Few men had more enemies than Custer, and no man deserved them less. The world has never known half the real nobility of his life nor a tithe of the difficulties under which he struggled.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330476298
• ISBN 13: 9781330476291
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 690