Who was general custer and what is he famous for?
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 Indian Wars. At the start of the Civil War, Custer was a cadet at the United States Military Academy and his class’s graduation was accelerated so that they could enter the war; Custer graduated last in his class. He served at the First Battle of Bull Run and was a staff officer for Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan in the Army of the Potomac’s 1862 Peninsula Campaign. Early in the Gettysburg Campaign, Custer’s association with cavalry commander Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton earned him promotion from first lieutenant to brigadier general of United States Volunteers at the age of 23.[1] Custer established a reputation as an aggressive cavalry brigade commander willing to take personal risks by leading his Michigan Brigade into battle, such as the mounted charges at Hunterstown and East Cavalry Field at the Battle of Gettysburg. In 1864, with the C
Custer was a outstanding (not always a compliment)commander during the civil war, his engagements against Early and JEB Stuart were bold and hard fought. he tended to obey the orders he liked and disregard the others,playing by his own rules, however he won battles so he advanced rapidly ,all the way to brigadier general, tho only by war brevet ( he was promoted cause they needed someone in that rank, but only for the war) when the war ended he lost the brevet rank and went back to being Lt colonel…post war he was a lousy officer, to get cashiered for a couple long stretchs for poor conduct and for criticising the war department. His engagement with blackkettle on the washita was a massacre rather than a battle, tho some of the details attributed to the custer raid are actually from the chivington raid a decade earlier , but the majority of the killed were woman ,children and old men, in a village that was peaceful and thought itself under the protection of the “white father in washi
George Armstrong Custer is famous (or infamous) for leading his 7th US cavalry troopers in the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876) against Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors (popularly known as “Custer’s Last Stand”). His troops were slaughtered; Custer was defeated and killed. A cadet at the US Military Academy when the Civil War started, his class was accelerated so that they could participate on the Union side. (Custer graduated last in his class.) During the war, he earned a reputation as an aggressive risk-taker which sometimes turned out well and sometimes did not.
