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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Custer’s official mission that summer ... they had grown apart over politics since the Civil War. After Belknap usurped the general’s command prerogatives with no objection from Grant ...

where the Civil War’s most sensational cavalryman, George Armstrong Custer, and more than 200 of his troopers met their doom in 1876. The largest uncertainty over what counts as war involves the ...