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This is the day that George Armstrong Custer was born.
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He attended a School in the year of 1855
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He got his teaching certificate to instruct grammar school.
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Custer entered the academy in the fall of 1857
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He buckled under the authority, and his infractions led him to famously finish last in his last class upon graduating class.
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He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the old 2nd Cavalry in the year of 1861.
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Custer was introduced to a sought-after young woman, the daughter of a judge named Elizabeth "Libbie" Bacon. Libbie is what every one called her.
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The two were married in Monroe in 1864
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In Grant's Richmond drive...Custer participated in the fight at Yellow Tavern.
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he owned part to Custer, whose cavalry units were crucial in standing down Confederate General Robert E. Lee and forcing him to surrender at Appomattox,
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Returning to the Army of the Potomac .....he fought at Five Forks; and in the Appomattox Campaign.
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Remaining in the army after the war,in 1866 he was appointed Lt. Col. of the newly authorized 7th Cavalry, remaining its active commander until his death
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He took part in the 1867 Sioux and Cheyenne expedition, but was court-martialed and suspended from duty one year for paying an unauthorized visit to his wife.
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Serving under General Winfield Hancock, Custer would see his first real experience in the west.
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Custer, now reinstated, was to command the 7th calvry for the campaign which culminated with the Battle of the Washita
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the United States ordered an attack on the Lakota that involved three separate forces, one of which was led by Custer.
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His army career ended June 25, 1876, at the Battle of Big Horn..which resulted in the elimination of his immediate command and a total loss of some 266 officers and men
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Georg Armstrong Custer died on the 25tth of June. He died a hero.
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On June 28th, the bodies were given a hasty burial on the field.
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The following year, what may have been Custer's remains were disinterred and given a military funeral at West Point.
