A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer - Softcover

Whittaker, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582180407 ISBN 13: 9781582180403

Verlag: Digital Scanning Inc., 2001

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George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 - June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1857, where he graduated last in his class in 1861. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Custer was called to serve with the Union Army. Custer developed a strong reputation during the Civil War. He participated in the first major engagement, the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, near Washington, D.C. His association with several important officers helped his career, as did his success as a highly effective cavalry commander. Custer was brevetted to brigadier general less than a week before the Battle of Gettysburg where he personally led cavalry charges that prevented Confederate troops from turning the Union flank. In 1864 Custer was given another star, being brevetted to major general rank. At the conclusion of the Appomattox Campaign, in which he and his troops played a decisive role, Custer was present at General Robert E. Lee's surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
After the Civil War, Custer remained a major general in the United States Volunteers until they were mustered out in February 1866. He reverted to his permanent rank of captain and was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the 7th Cavalry Regiment in July 1866. He was dispatched to the west in 1867 to fight in the American Indian Wars. On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory against a coalition of Native American tribes, he and all of his regiment--which included two of his brothers--were killed. The battle is popularly known in American history as "Custer's Last Stand." Custer and his regiment were defeated so decisively at the Little Bighorn that it has overshadowed all of his prior achievements.This citaion is directly from Wikipedia.This book written shortly after his death was Libby Custers attemp to establish her dead husband as a true American Hero.

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FREDERICK WHITTAKER (1838-1889), born in London, emigrated to the United States in 1850. During the Civil War he enlisted as a private and rose to second lieutenant. After the war, he became a professional writer and a popular author of "dime novels." In 1876, after Custer's death, Whittaker started writing an extensive and definitive biography, A Complete Life of General George A. Custer.

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This book aims to give the world the life of George Armstrong Custer, one of the few really great men that America has produced. Beginning at the foot of the social ladder, he rose to the top rapidly and phenomenally.

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.

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• Verlag: Digital Scanning Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1582180407
• ISBN 13: 9781582180403
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 688
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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