Custer, George Armstrong
Born December 5, 1839
New Rumley, Ohio
Died June 25, 1876
Montana
U.S. Army officer
George Armstrong Custer. (Reproduced from the Collections of the Library of Congress.)
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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...
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