"My voice is for war!" -- Custer the goat -- The brotherhood broken -- "A slim, long-haired boy, carelessly dressed" -- "I promise that you shall hear of me" -- "Conspicuous gallantry" -- Gettysburg -- The "daring, terrible demon" of battle -- The Buckland races -- The Dahlgren Affair -- Little Phil -- Into the Valley -- "Let the sword decide the contest" -- Custer's counterinsurgency -- "Custer is a trump" -- "Fighting like a Viking" -- "Custer against the world" -- "Like the charge of a Sioux chieftain" -- The "long-haired hero of the lash" -- The "swing around the circle" -- Court-martial -- Washita -- Custer on the plains -- The great buffalo hunt -- Battle on the Yellowstone -- Custer's Gulch -- Grant's revenge -- "Don't be greedy" -- A ridge too far -- "He will never fight anymore".
Summary:
Explores the life and storied military career of George Armstrong Custer, from cutting his teeth at Bull Run in the Civil War to his famous and untimely death at Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars.
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