United States cavalry commander (1839–1876)
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The cavalry officer who rose to brigadier general at 23, won at Gettysburg, and took the Confederate flag of truce at Appomattox — then rode into the Montana Territory and died with every man in his command at Little Bighorn.
George Armstrong Custer graduated dead last in West Point's class of 1861 — 34th of 34 — yet outranked every one of his classmates by war's end. Generals McClellan and Pleasonton saw something in him as a cavalry leader, and at 23 he was made brevet brigadier general of volunteers. Days later, in July 1863, he commanded the Michigan Brigade at Gettysburg and beat J. E. B. Stuart's Confederate cavalry on the battle's third day despite being outnumbered. He rode with Sheridan through the Shenandoah in 1864, crushed Jubal Early at Cedar Creek and again at Waynesboro, then blocked Lee's final retr…
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Ah!" said the doctor, in his most complacent manner, "here is the opportunity I have long been waiting for. I have often desired to test and taste the Indian mode of cooking.
Wild Bill" was a strange character, just the one which a novelist might gloat over. Me was a Plainsman in every sense of the word, yet unlike any other of his class.
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