George Armstrong Custer facts for kids
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George Armstrong Custer
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Allegiance | United States of America Union |
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United States Army Union Army |
Years of service | 1861–76 |
Rank | Major General of Volunteers Lieutenant Colonel (Regular Army) |
Commands held | Michigan Brigade 3rd Cavalry Division 7th U.S. Cavalry |
Battles/wars | American Civil War |
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 at West Point, and his class's graduation was accelerated so that they could enter the war. Custer graduated last in his class and served at the First Battle of Bull Run as a staff officer for Major General George B. McClellan in the Army of the Potomac's 1862 Peninsula Campaign. Early in the Gettysburg Campaign, Custer's association with cavalry commander Major General Alfred Pleasonton earned him a brevet promotion from First Lieutenant to Brigadier General of United States Volunteers at the age of 23.
Images for kids
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USMA Cadet George Armstrong "Autie" Custer, ca. 1859 with a Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver.
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Custer with former classmate, friend, and captured Confederate soldier, Lieutenant James Barroll Washington, an aide to General Johnston, at Fair Oaks, Virginia, 1862
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Custer (extreme right) with President Lincoln, General McClellan and other officers at the Battle of Antietam, 1862
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Custer (left) with General Pleasonton on horseback in Falmouth, Virginia, 1863
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Mathew Brady photograph of Custer. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
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Custer and Bloody Knife (kneeling left), Custer's favorite Indian Scout
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Custer and his wife at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, 1874
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Marker indicating where Custer fell on "Last Stand Hill" during Battle of the Little Bighorn – Crow Agency, Montana
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Custer Memorial at his birthplace in New Rumley, Ohio
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Monroe, Michigan, Custer's childhood home, unveiled the George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument in 1910
See also
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