Download or read book George Armstrong Custer Classic Reprint written by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from George Armstrong Custer Were I reading of one unknown to me, I should close this book with the thought that it was the fairest and frankest story of an intrepid soldier that his greatest admirers might demand. General Custer's victories in the Civil War are commended without exaggeration, his Indian campaigns described by one who perfectly understood the difficulties to be overcome and therefore could estimate at what cost success was attained. So few do just what they want to do in this life. The author makes one know that he of whom he writes was one of that number. General Custer was enthusiastic over his profession and entered upon his Indian campaigns commanding a few hundred men as buoyantly as when he had led thousands in the Civil War. The responsibilities of the few leaders of the cavalry in the Army of the Potomac were very great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Boy General written by Elizabeth Bacon Custer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Officers Union written by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Civil War Officers Union: George Armstrong Custer; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources General Custer was much impressed with the fine people and the Kentucky hospitality and this two-year residence was very pleasant, contrasted with his hard life on the plains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer written by Thom Hatch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle from jacket; subtitle on title page repeats the main title.
Download or read book An Autobiography of General Custer written by George Armstrong Custer and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken from George Armstrong Custer's own writings, An Autobiography of General Custer is the true story of one of the most praised and most despised - though surely among the most remembered - American military heroes. Indeed few figures in ancient and recent history were as wildly cheered and roundly hated as General Custer.
Download or read book Popular Life of Gen George A Custer written by Frederick Whittaker and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Life of Gen. George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General Army, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh U. S. Cavalry This book aims to give to the world the life of a great man, one of the few really great men that America has produced. Beginning at the foot of the social ladder, with no advantages beyond those, physical and mental, given to him by the GOD who made him, he rose to the top. His upward career was so rapid and phenomenal in its success as to deceive the world in general as to the means by which he rose, and none more completely for a time than tho present writer of bis biography. Much of Custer's success has been attributed to good fortune, while it was really the result of a wonderful capacity for hard and energetic work, and a rapidity of intuition which is seldom found apart from military genius of the highest order. It is only after a careful and complete examination of the character of the man, and the perusal of a mass of private correspondence, beginning in his days of obscurity, after the unconscious revelation by himself of his inmost thoughts and aspirations, that the author has learned aright to appreciate the personality of the subject of this biography. Few men had more enemies than Custer, and no man deserved them less. The world has never known half the real nobility of his life nor a tithe of the difficulties under which he struggled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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.
Download or read book Custer written by Jay Monaghan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Custer literature is voluminous and most of it is highly controversial. Through the tangle of charges and countercharges Jay Monaghan cuts a clear path in his fresh account of Custer's whole career. Where possible, Monaghan relies on original sources, and he appraises them with the sound judgment of the practiced historian he is. He is sympathetic with Custer but does not hesitate to show the man's foibles and failures. He presents no attorney's brief and yet he disproves a number of ill-founded accusations. . . ."
Download or read book George Armstrong Custer written by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Complete Life of Gen George A Custer written by Frederick Whittaker and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer written by Thom Hatch and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling narrative history of George Armstrong Custer's death at the Little Bighorn, award-winning historian Thom Hatch puts to rest the questions and conspiracies that have made Custer's last stand one of the most misunderstood events in American history. While numerous historians have investigated the battle, what happened on those plains hundreds of miles from even a whisper of civilization has been obscured by intrigue and deception starting with the very first shots fired. Custer's death and the defeat of the 7th Calvary by the Sioux was a shock to a nation that had come to believe that its westward expansion was a matter of destiny. While the first reports defended Custer, many have come to judge him by this single event, leveling claims of racism, disobedience, and incompetence. These false claims unjustly color Custer's otherwise extraordinarily life and fall far short of encompassing his service to his country. By reexamining the facts and putting Custer within the context of his time and his career as a soldier, Hatch's The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer reveals the untold and controversial truth of what really happened in the valley of the Little Bighorn, making it the definitive history of Custer's last stand. This history of charging cavalry, desperate defenses, and malicious intrigue finally sets the record straight for one of history's most dynamic and misunderstood figures.
Download or read book George Armstrong Custer written by Mark L. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Armstrong Custer has been buried in words. It is time to step back and look at the basic facts of his life and the part of history in which he was a more than willing participant. George Armstrong Custer gives you the true life story of the man who became a myth. Read about the life of "Yellowhair" and see the man behind the legend.
Download or read book Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue to Major General George Armstrong Custer Classic Reprint written by Michigan; Custer Monument Commission and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue to Major General George Armstrong Custer About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book George Armstrong Custer written by Dana Meachen Rau and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the impact that dynamic leaders have on society. Read their stories and be inspired!
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: From George Armstrong Custer's graduation from West Point to the daring cavalry charges that propelled him to the rank of General and national fame at age twenty-three to an unlikely romance with his eventual wife Libbie Bacon, Custer's exploits are the stuff of legend. Always leading his men from the front with a personal courage seldom seen before or since, he was a key part of nearly every major engagement in the east. Not only did Custer capture the first battle flag taken by the Union Army and receive the white flag of surrender at Appomattox, but his field generalship at Gettysburg against Confederate cavalry General Jeb Stuart had historic implications in changing the course of that pivotal battle. For decades, historians have looked at Custer strictly through the lens of his death on the frontier, casting him as a failure. While the events that took place at the Little Big Horn are illustrative of America's bloody westward expansion, they have unjustly eclipsed Custer's otherwise extraordinarily life and outstanding career. This biography of thundering cannons, pounding hooves, and stunning successes tells the story of one of history's most dynamic and misunderstood figures. Award-winning historian Thom Hatch reexamines Custer's early career to rebalance the scales and show why Custer's epic fall could never have happened without the spectacular rise that made him an American legend.
Download or read book Tenting on the Plains Illustrated Edition written by Elizabeth Bacon Custer and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tenting on the Plains is the firsthand account of General Custer's life written by his wife Libbie who accompanied him on all his military assignments. This book brings interesting details regarding the problems of establishing communities on the frontier posts. It also it goes deep into General's personal life and deals with the relationship with his father.
Download or read book Custer 1861 1865 written by Paul D. Walker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Armstrong Custer stands as the classic example of a fallen American hero. During his lifetime, he was revered by a grateful nation as the youngest, bravest, most colorful, and most successful general of the Civil War. Then, almost immediately after his death at the Little Bighorn, he was reviled as an incompetent, immature butcher who had recklessly led his regiment into a needless slaughter in the search for glory. In The Custer America Forgot, 1861 1865, author Paul D. Walker narrates the untold story of the young general, a man who had a special fearless determination and natural ability to win battle after battle for Union forces and who led more than one hundred battles that produced significant victories. Thoroughly researched, this study takes an in-depth look at Custer his birth in 1839, his childhood, his schooling at West Point, his young adulthood, his exploits as a military leader, his marriage to Libby, and his legendary last stand. Walker reveals the story of one of the United States' Greatest national heroes and restores Custer to his rightful place in American history.
