No figure of the Indian wars in America so typifies that era as George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876). He is known universally for the massacre that bears his name and for the blundering that brought it about. George Custer was born in New Rumley,...

Born December 5, 1839 New Rumley, Ohio Died June 25, 1876 Montana U.S. Army officer George Armstrong Custer. Despite his early...

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Promoted at an early age to a temporary war-time rank of Major General, and later made a permanent...

Jeffry D. Wert calls his new biography of George Armstrong Custer "the first full-scale study of his entire life in over three decades" (9). This is surely a propitious time for a fresh appraisal of America's most flamboyant soldier. The thirty-seven years since...

TURNING A NOVELIST loose on Custer's Last Stand isn't a bad idea; and in fact Mr. Connell has cited Custoer in the best known of his novels. In Mrs. Bridge (1959), that bilious account of the misery of middle-class existence in Kansas City,...

Bruce Crandall was a soldier once ... and young. As a 32-year-old helicopter pilot, he flew through a gauntlet of enemy fire, taking ammunition in and wounded Americans out of one of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War, Army records say. Now, a week...

A former soldier who served in the Vietnam War more than 40 years ago will receive the United States' highest military honor Monday in a White House ceremony with President George W. Bush."I'm still here," Bruce Crandall, 74, he said of his 41-year-wait for the...