This action became romanticized as " Custer's Last Stand". On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory against a coalition of Native American tribes, he was killed along with all of the five companies he led after splitting the regiment into three battalions. Grant at Appomattox.Īfter the war, Custer was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the Regular Army and was sent west to fight in the Indian Wars. His division blocked the Army of Northern Virginia's final retreat and received the first flag of truce from the Confederates, and Custer was present at Robert E. In 1864, Custer served in the Overland Campaign and in Philip Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah Valley, defeating Jubal Early at Cedar Creek. Stuart's attack at what is now known as the East Cavalry Field. Only a few days after his promotion, he fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, where he commanded the Michigan Cavalry Brigade and despite being outnumbered, defeated J.
McClellan and the future General Alfred Pleasonton, both of whom recognized his qualities as a cavalry leader, and he was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers at age 23. Ĭuster graduated from West Point in 1861 at the bottom of his class, but as the Civil War was just starting, trained officers were in immediate demand. George Armstrong Custer (Decem– June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.
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