But by then the Civil War had broken out, and the Army needed all the officers it could get. Custer went unpunished. Custer distinguished himself in several Civil War battles. After the war ...

Behncke and Bloomfield reveal deep emotional and physical scars that Custer carried away from the Civil War and the Indian Wars. Their meticulous research and engrossing writing bring Custer to vivid ...

During the Civil War, Custer had fought courageously and commanded skillfully—but now, with the war over, he used his military authority to take what was not his, for no official purpose.

In 1936, Elizabeth Custer, whose late husband is better remembered for his last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn than his role in the Civil War, gave the side table and her portion of the ...

It was the last week in June, the summer of 1876. Thirty-seven-year-old George Armstrong Custer had made a name for himself ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...

The story of U.S. Army commander George Armstrong Custer, a flamboyant hero of the Civil War who later fought and was exterminated with his entire command by warring Sioux and Cheyenne tribes at ...

But by then the Civil War had broken out, and the Army needed all the officers it could get. Custer went unpunished. Custer distinguished himself in several Civil War battles. After the war ...