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The real Custer from boy general to tragic hero

Main Author: Robbins, James S., 1962-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Regnery Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
Custer, George A. > (George Armstrong), > 1839-1876.
United States. > Army > Biography.
Generals > United States > Biography.
Indians of North America > Wars > 1866-1895.
Indians of North America > Wars > Great Plains.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Beginnings
  • "My voice is for war!"
  • Custer the goat
  • The brotherhood broken
  • Part II. Custer goes to war
  • "A slim, long-haired boy, carelessly dressed"
  • "I promise that you shall hear of me"
  • The boy general
  • Part III. The boy general
  • Gettysburg
  • The "daring, terrible demon" of battle
  • The Buckland races
  • The Dahlgren Affair
  • Little Phil
  • Into the Valley
  • "Let the sword decide the contest"
  • Custer's counterinsurgency
  • "Custer is a trump"
  • "Fighting like a Viking"
  • "Custer against the world"
  • "Like the charge of a Sioux chieftain"
  • Part IV. Fall from grace
  • The "long-haired hero of the lash"
  • The "swing around the circle"
  • Court-martial
  • Part V. Redemption
  • Washita
  • Custer on the plains
  • The great buffalo hunt
  • Battle on the Yellowstone
  • Part VI. The final act
  • Custer's Gulch
  • Custer vs. Grant
  • "Don't be greedy"
  • A ridge too far
  • "He will never fight anymore".

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