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Under Custer's Command

Author : Karla Jean Husby
Publisher : Potomac Books
ISBN 13 : 9781574884081
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Under Custer's Command written by Karla Jean Husby and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avery fought in the legendary Michigan Cavalry Brigade, commanded by George Armstrong Custer * Avery's battles included Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Yellow Tavern, Haws Shop, Tom's Brook, Cedar Creek, and Trevilian Station George Armstrong Custer's fabled Fifth Regiment fought with great distinction throughout the war and suffered the third highest total of men killed in the entire Union cavalry. A twenty-four-year-old farmer and new father from Hopkins, Michigan, named James Henry Avery was one of Custer's feared Wolverines. Besides eloquently describing his personal experiences, Sergeant Avery's wartime journals and postwar reminiscences provide uniquely detailed descriptions of Civil War cavalry movements and the only known account that addresses the escape of elements of the Fifth Michigan Cavalry on the first day of the Battle of Trevilian Station.

Custer And His Commands

Author : Kurt Hamilton Cox
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1784380334
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Custer And His Commands written by Kurt Hamilton Cox and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated book is a complete pictorial history of George Armstrong Custer. From his early days at West Point to death and glory at Little Bighorn. Custer was one of the most flamboyant and colourful officers ever to have served in the US Army.

Custerology

Author : Michael A. Elliott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226201481
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Custerology written by Michael A. Elliott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer’s direct command was killed. It’s easy to understand why this tremendous defeat shocked the American public at the time. But with Custerology, Michael A. Elliott tackles the far more complicated question of why the battle still haunts the American imagination today. Weaving vivid historical accounts of Custer at Little Bighorn with contemporary commemorations that range from battle reenactments to the unfinished Crazy Horse memorial, Elliott reveals a Custer and a West whose legacies are still vigorously contested. He takes readers to each of the important places of Custer’s life, from his Civil War home in Michigan to the site of his famous demise, and introduces us to Native American activists, Park Service rangers, and devoted history buffs along the way. Elliott shows how Custer and the Indian Wars continue to be both a powerful symbol of America’s bloody past and a crucial key to understanding the nation’s multicultural present. “[Elliott] is an approachable guide as he takes readers to battlefields where Custer fought American Indians . . . to the Michigan town of Monroe that Custer called home after he moved there at age 10 . . . to the Black Hills of South Dakota where Custer led an expedition that gave birth to a gold rush."—Steve Weinberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution “By ‘Custerology,’ Elliott means the historical interpretation and commemoration of Custer and the Indian Wars in which he fought not only by those who honor Custer but by those who celebrate the Native American resistance that defeated him. The purpose of this book is to show how Custer and the Little Bighorn can be and have been commemorated for such contradictory purposes.”—Library Journal “Michael Elliott’s Custerology is vivid, trenchant, engrossing, and important. The American soldier George Armstrong Custer has been the subject of very nearly incessant debate for almost a century and a half, and the debate is multicultural, multinational, and multimedia. Mr. Elliott's book provides by far the best overview, and no one interested in the long-haired soldier whom the Indians called Son of the Morning Star can afford to miss it.”—Larry McMurtry

Custer and His Commands

Author : Kurt Hamilton Cox
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780791066683
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Custer and His Commands written by Kurt Hamilton Cox and published by Chelsea House Pub. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated history of the units commanded by General Custer, focusing on the uniforms and equipment they used in Civil War campaigns, while exploring and keeping peace in the western states, and in battle with Native Americans.

Custer And His Commands

Author : Kurt Hamilton Cox
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1853673587
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Custer And His Commands written by Kurt Hamilton Cox and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated book is a complete pictorial history of George Armstrong Custer. From his early days at West Point to death and glory at Little Bighorn. Custer was one of the most flamboyant and colourful officers ever to have served in the US Army.

Custer

Author : Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439129320
Total Pages : 1227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Custer written by Jeffry D. Wert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 1227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Armstrong Custer has been so heavily mythologized that the human being has been all but lost. Now, in the first complete biography in decades, Jeffry Wert reexamines the life of the famous soldier to give us Custer in all his colorful complexity. Although remembered today as the loser at Little Big Horn, Custer was the victor of many cavalry engagements in the Civil War. He played an important role in several battles in the Virginia theater of the war, including the Shenandoah campaign. Renowned for his fearlessness in battle, he was always in front of his troops, leading the charge. His men were fiercely loyal to him, and he was highly regarded by Sheridan and Grant as well. Some historians think he may have been the finest cavalry officer in the Union Army. But when he was assigned to the Indian wars on the Plains, life changed drastically for Custer. No longer was he in command of soldiers bound together by a cause they believed in. Discipline problems were rampant, and Custer's response to them earned him a court-martial. There were long lulls in the fighting, during which time Custer turned his attention elsewhere, often to his wife, Libbie Bacon Custer, to whom he was devoted. Their romance and marriage is a remarkable love story, told here in part through their personal correspondence. After Custer's death, Libbie would remain faithful to his memory until her own death nearly six decades later. Jeffry Wert carefully examines the events around the defeat at Little Big Horn, drawing on recent archeological findings and the latest scholarship. His evenhanded account of the dramatic battle puts Custer's performance, and that of his subordinates, in proper perspective. From beginning to end, this masterful biography peels off the layers of legend to reveal for us the real George Armstrong Custer.

Custer and the Little Bighorn

Author : Jim Donovan
Publisher : Crestline
ISBN 13 : 0785825894
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Custer and the Little Bighorn written by Jim Donovan and published by Crestline. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major illustrated book to examine the life and death of General Custer.

Custer and His Commands

Author : Kurt Hamilton
Publisher : G.I. the Illustrated History o
ISBN 13 : 9781848328075
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Custer and His Commands written by Kurt Hamilton and published by G.I. the Illustrated History o. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Armstrong Custer was one of the most flamboyant and controversial officers ever to have served in the United States Army. This superbly illustrated book provides a unique visual record of this famous commander from his graduation at West Point to the last great battle of the American West: the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Rare photographs from private collections show his stylish uniforms, weapons and artifacts, and reveal the faces of the men who rode into legend with him. Includes images of the units he commanded and of the soldiers who fought - and some of whom died - at the Little Big Horn.

The Custer Album

Author : Lawrence A. Frost
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806122823
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Custer Album written by Lawrence A. Frost and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and drawings trace the life and career of General Custer, and are accompanied by a discussion of his final battle at the Little Big Horn

Glorious War

Author : Thom Hatch
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250028507
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Glorious War written by Thom Hatch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of General Custer doesn't focus on his failure at Little Big Horn but instead describes his legendary successes during the Civil War including his capture of the first Confederate battle flag of the war. 30,000 first printing.

Sitting Bull

Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466871393
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Sitting Bull written by Robert M. Utley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, award-winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansion Reviled by the United States government as a troublemaker and a coward, revered by his people as a great warrior chief, Sitting Bull has long been one of the most fascinating and misunderstood figures in American history. Distinguished historian Robert M. Utley has forged a compelling portrait of Sitting Bull, presenting the Lakota perspective for the first time and rendering the most unbiased, historically accurate, and vivid portrait of the man to date. The Sitting Bull who emerges in this fast-paced narrative is a complex, towering figure: a great warrior whose skill and bravery in battle were unparalleled; the spiritual leader of his people; a dignified but ultimately tragically stubborn defender of the traditional ways against the steadfast and unwelcome encroachment of the white man.

To Hell with Honor

Author : Larry Sklenar
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134727
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book To Hell with Honor written by Larry Sklenar and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sklenar contends that Custer did have a battle plan, one different from any other suggested by scholars thus far. Custer, he argues, had reason to believe that his scheme might succeed with minimum bloodshed; made decisions consistent with army regulations and his best instincts as an experienced commander; had subordinates who could not overcome the limits of their personalities in a desperate situation; and made a selfless commitment to save the bulk of his regiment. Along the way, Sklenar appraises the officers and other men who served in the Seventh, evaluating the survivors' testimony and assessing the intent and motives of each."--BOOK JACKET.

Troopers with Custer

Author : E. A. Brininstool
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811717427
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Troopers with Custer written by E. A. Brininstool and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic firsthand tales of the events preceding the Battle of the Little Big Horn told through exciting eyewitness accounts of participants.

Touched by Fire

Author : Louise Barnett
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803262669
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Touched by Fire written by Louise Barnett and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and balanced biography of the controversial George Armstrong Custer.

Custer's Trials

Author : T.J. Stiles
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101875844
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Custer's Trials written by T.J. Stiles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person—capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.

Custer Victorious

Author : Gregory J. W. Urwin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803295568
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Custer Victorious written by Gregory J. W. Urwin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Custer found himself in the one dilemma all soldiers most dread—he was outnumbered and completely surrounded. With disaster looming in every quarter and no chance of escape. . . ." So Gregory J. W Urwin pulls the reader into a scene describing not the Battle of the Little Big Horn but a Civil War engagement that George Armstrong Custer and his troop survived, thanks to strategy as much as naked courage. Many books have focused on Custer's Last Stand in 1876, making legend of total defeat. Custer Victorious is the first to examine at length, with attention to primary sources, his brilliant Civil War career. Urwin writes: "None of Custer's exploits against the Plains Indians could compare with those he performed while with the Army of the Potomac." The leader of a brigade called "the Wolverines," Custer was promoted to major general and the helm of the Third Cavalry Division when he was only twenty-four. Urwin describes the Boy General's vital contributions to Union victories from Gettysburg to Appomattox.

The Real Custer

Author : James S Robbins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621572366
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Real Custer written by James S Robbins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Custer takes a good hard look at the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custer—from cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War, to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. Author James Robbins demonstrates that Custer, having graduated last in his class at West Point, went on to prove himself again and again as an extremely skilled cavalry leader. Robbins argues that Custer's undoing was his bold and cocky attitude, which caused the Army's bloodiest defeat in the Indian Wars. Robbins also dives into Custer’s personal life, exploring his letters and other personal documents to reveal who he was as a person, underneath the military leader. The Real Custer is an exciting and valuable contribution to the legend and history of Custer that will delight Custer fans as well as readers new to the legend.