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	PBS - THE WEST - George Armstrong Custer
		In July of 1866 Custer was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Cavalry.
		Custer was sent to the Northern Plains in 1873, where he soon participated in a few small skirmishes with the Lakota in the Yellowstone area.
		Custer, however, advanced much more quickly than he had been ordered to do, and neared what he thought was a large Indian village on the morning of June 25, 1876.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/custer.htm (818 words)

	George A. Custer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Custer applied at once for permission to attack the picket-post he had just discovered, and at daylight the next morning surprised the enemy, drove them back, capturing some prisoners and the first colors that were taken by the Army of the Potomac.
		Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, in 1839.
		Cavalier in Buckskin : George Armstrong Custer and the...
	www.georgearmstrongcuster.com (2714 words)

	George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876)
		Custer’s last stand and defeat is one of the most famous military blunders in history, yet compared with most events in military history it is a very small affair with a mere 250 dead, but it is as well known to most people as the D Day landings, or the battle of Waterloo.
		Custer’s actions that day were typical of one of the worse commanders in history, and typical of his glory seeking, arrogant incompetent character.
		Custer would have been pleased his name went down in history but this is little comfort to the families of those that died to serve his glory.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/people_custer.html (1073 words)

	Custer - MSN Encarta
		Custer was born on December 5, 1839, in New Rumley, Ohio, and educated at the United States Military Academy.
		Custer's application was denied; he became lieutenant colonel of the 7th Cavalry Regiment and was assigned to Kansas to engage in the wars against the Native Americans.
		Custer's regiment formed part of the forces of General Alfred Howe Terry, one of three groups participating in the movement.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570968/Custer_George_Armstrong.html (358 words)

	Chiefs - Sioux, George Armstrong Custer Biography - Galafilm, Montreal
		His wife, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, or Libbie, as she was known, followed Custer from camp to camp and fort to fort, throughout the West.
		Custer spent his final 10 years of life in battle with the First Nation tribes of the Great Plains region and the Dakota and Montana territories.
		Custer and his entire unit were wiped out in one of the greatest fiascos of the United States Army.
	www.galafilm.com /chiefs/htmlen/sioux/sp_custer.html (372 words)

	© THE OFFICIAL SITE OF; George Custer © Home Page ® Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Custer was raised amongst the backdrop of the hills in Southeastern Ohio, George grew up with ambitions far reaching the stretches of middle America unto the plains of the western frontier.
		Eldest son of George and Maria Custer, Custer was doted on by older half siblings and nurtured on the stories of the Revolution and War of 1812.
		George Custer and lieutenant George was born in New Rumley Ohio in 1839.
	www.memberbbb.com /custermain.html (238 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Civil War Times \| George Armstrong Custer: Between Myth and Reality
		Born on December 5, 1839, in New Rumley, Ohio, Custer was the oldest surviving child of Emanuel and Maria Kirkpatrick Custer.
		George Custer would gain his greatest fame and achieve a measure of immortality during the Indian wars.
		After George Custer's death in 1876, his wife Libbie would dedicate her life to preserving, if not embellishing, the memory of his military exploits.
	www.historynet.com /cwti/bl-george-custer (1171 words)

	George Armstrong Custer
		George Armstrong Custer was born on December 5, 1839, the oldest of five children of Emmanuel and Maria Custer.
		On November 27, 1868, on the Washita River in the Antelope Hills of Indian territory, Custer defeated a group of Chennne, Arapahoe, and Kiowa, though it was later found this group was largely non-combatants.
		The force was destroyed by an overwhelming force, leading to Custer's death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
	members.aol.com /Gibson0817/custer.htm (483 words)

	GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER, USA
		George Armstrong Custer was born on December 5, 1839, in Harrison County, Ohio.
		Custer was easily recognized by his blond curly hair, red necktie and lavish, self-designed uniform.
		Custer was one of the first Union officers to observe combat from a balloon.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USACuster.html (368 words)

	Ohio Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Custer was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the newly commissioned Seventh United States Cavalry, July 28, 1866.
		Custer divided his regiment into three columns and moved in to attack.
		Custer and his column were destroyed by a superior force of Lakota warriors.
	ohiobio.org /custer.htm (162 words)

	CBHMA :: George Armstrong Custer
		Custer are introduced to President Lincoln in Washington, D.C. May 11, 1864: During the Battle of Yellow Tavern, one of Custer’s men, Sergeant Huff, shoots and kills General J. Stuart.
		George and Elizabeth miss the wedding due to the tour with the Grand Duke.
		Custer and others meet on the Far West to make final plans for action against the expected 500 to 600 hostile warriors, with a primary concern that the Indians will run and escape when the troops are sighted.
	www.cbhma.org /Research/george-armstrong-custer.shtml (2133 words)

	George Armstrong Custer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		CUSTER, George Armstrong, soldier, born in New Rumley, Ohio, December 5, 1839; died on June 25, 1876.
		The Indians concentrated their force upon Custer's division, all the men of which, including General Custer, were massacred on June 25, 1876.
		General Custer was buried at West Point, where a statue of him was erected in 1879.
	www.lbha.org /Cavalry/GeorgeCuster.htm (418 words)

	George Armstrong Custer Biography
		George Custer was born in New Rumley, Harrison County, Ohio, on Dec. 5, 1839.
		The conflict over, Custer reverted to his permanent rank of captain in the 5th Cavalry but soon was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 7th Cavalry; he would actively hold this command until his death.
		Custer was to lead the campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne in early 1876, but instead he was summoned to Washington to testify before a congressional committee investigating fraud in the Indian Bureau.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/george-armstrong-custer (708 words)

	George Armstrong Custer
		The American cavalry soldier George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, Harrison County, Ohio, on the 5th of December 1839.
		In 1866 Custer was made lieutenant-colonel of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, and took part under General Winfield Scott Hancock in the expedition against the Cheyenne Indians, upon whom he inflicted a crushing defeat at Washita river on the 27th of November 1868.
		Becoming aide-de-camp to General Custer, he accompanied him throughout the latter part of the war, distinguishing himself by his daring on all occasions, and winning successively the brevets of captain, major and lieutenant-colonel, though he was barely twenty years of age when the war ended.
	www.nndb.com /people/760/000026682 (699 words)

	The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Major Marcus Reno was to pursue the group, cross the river, and charge the Indian village in a coordinated effort with the remaining troops under his command.
		As the Indians closed in, Custer ordered his men to shoot their horses and stack the carcasses to form a wall, but they provided little protection against bullets.
		George Herendon served as a scout for the Seventh Cavalry - a civilian under contract with the army and attached to Major Reno's command.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /custer.htm (1172 words)

	Michigan Historical Marker: George Armstrong Custer
		Raised in Monroe, George Armstrong Custer graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1861.
		Custer commanded a division in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 and his troops cut off the last avenue of escape for Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse on April 19, 1865.
		Custer is presented at a young age; he was only twenty-three years old when he faced the Confederate cavalry at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.
	www.michmarkers.com /Pages/S0638.htm (255 words)

	CusterLife.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Custer and the 7th Cavalry, given the task of tracking the Indians down, spent the entire summer in the attempt to find them.
		Custer was assigned to Elizabethtown, Kentucky where his chief duty was to inspect and purchase horses for the Army.
		Custer was to pass all the way down the Rosebud Creek and cross over to the Little Big Horn Valley and move north, in a blocking maneuver to prevent the Indians from escaping south.
	www.cherpub.com /CusterLife.htm (2273 words)

	American Experience \| Ulysses S. Grant \| People & Events \| George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) and the Battle of ...
		Custer had already gained a reputation for getting into trouble.
		In 1874 Custer led an expedition in Lakota Sioux territory, in the Black Hills of Dakota.
		At first, Custer was not included as part of the force.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/p_custer.html (648 words)

	The Court Martial of George Armstrong Custer
		On 11 October 1867, at Fort Leavenworth, a court martial found Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, Lieutenant Colonel, 7 th U.S. Cavalry guilty and sentenced him to suspension from rank and command for one year, and forfeiture of his pay for the same time.
		This on "Custer's Cavalry Column Trail," while traveling southward, between fifteen and forty miles south of Platt River, between fifty and seventy miles Southwest from Fort Sedgewick, Colorado, on or about the seventh day of July, 1867.
		In consequence the Court sentenced Brevet Major General G.A. Custer, Lieutenant Colonel, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to be suspended from rank and command for one year, and forfeit his pay for the same time.
	usacac.army.mil /CAC/csi/history/custer.asp (630 words)

	OHS/Custer Monument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Visitors at the exhibit pavilion may read about Custer's life and the spirited qualities of the young soldier whose "Last Stand" has made his name a household word.
		Custer, born in 1839, became famous as a daring cavalryman during the Civil War.
		The Custer Monument is on the north side of State Route 646 at the west edge of New Rumley north of Cadiz, in Harrison County.
	www.ohiohistory.org /places/custer (149 words)

	George Armstrong Custer: Re: Good job Red
		Custer has to rank as one of the most controversial figures in American history.
		The remains of many of the soldiers killed there were buried beneath this monument after being removed from their original makeshift graves.
		Rumor has it that one of the men buried here is Custer himself, and that the bones buried in his grave at West Point are actually those of an unknown enlisted man. No one really knows I don't think.
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	George Armstrong Custer
		After graduating from high school, Custer enrolled at West Point He passed the entrance exams, and became a cadet of the class of 1861.
		On July 28, 1866, Custer was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the newly formed Seventh United States Cavalry On October 11, 1867, he was court-martialed.
		Custer and the Seventh Cavalry happened upon a Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita River in what is present day Oklahoma.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/7335/107794 (522 words)

	George A. Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
		George Armstrong Custer was elevated to the rank of General by a battlefied commission during the Civil War.
		Photographs from the National Archives taken during Custer's campaigns and found in the Gallery of the Frontier and the PBS The West websites.
		Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons, commanded by Gen. George Custer, crossing the plains of Dakota Territory.
	www.hanksville.org /daniel/misc/Custer.html (1587 words)

	George Armstrong Custer
		George Armstrong Custer: Bibliography - Bibliography Custer wrote My Life on the Plains (1874), and his wife, Elizabeth Bacon Custer,...
		George Armstrong Custer: The 7th Cavalry - The 7th Cavalry In the reorganization of the U.S. army after the war Custer was assigned to the 7th...
		George Armstrong Custer: Civil War Service - Civil War Service Custer fought in the Civil War at the first battle of Bull Run, distinguished...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0814341.html (147 words)

	George Armstrong Custer Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although better known for his Indian fighting, George Custer compiled a creditable record as a cavalry leader in the latter part of the Civil War.
		In Grant's Richmond drive in 1864, Custer participated in the fight at Yellow Tavern where Stuart was mortally wounded.
		His victories against the rebel cavalry came at a time when that force was a ghost of its former self Custer was brevetted in the regulars through grades to major general for Gettysburg, Yellow Tavern, Winchester, Five Forks, and the Appomattox Campaign.
	www.civilwarhome.com /custerbi.htm (392 words)

	George Armstrong Custer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER, colorful Civil War leaders and Indian fighter, died with most of his command at the Battle of Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876.
		Custer took exception to the statue and had it removed.
		Subsequently, the pedestal with the addition of an obelisk became the grave marker for this legendary figure.
	www.lbha.org /Research/GeorgeCuster.htm (489 words)

	George Armstrong Custer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		on June 25, 1876, General Custer and 267 of his men were killed by Indians in the battle of Little Big Horn.
		When the 36-year-old Custer's naked body was found later, one of his fingers was cut off, and an arrow had been shoved into his penis.
		There was a wound in his temple, and it was thought that Custer had saved his last bullet for himself.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/historical/george-armstrong-custer (78 words)

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