A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer Reprint of the Edition Contributor(s): Whittaker, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1582180407 ISBN-13: 9781582180403 Publisher: Digital Scanning OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: 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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BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 1.78" H x 6.06" W x 9.03" (2.38 lbs) 688 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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Publisher Description: 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.
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