george armstrong custer
- n United States general who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1839-1876)
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- At Gettysburg, a taste of war in 1863
A clash Friday gave thousands of spectators a taste of what war was like 150 years ago, when the young, fair-haired Gen. George Armstrong Custer lured Southerners into an ambush on July 2, 1863.
July 6, 2013 - Stars and Stripes - A taste of war in 1863
A clash Friday gave thousands of spectators a taste of what war was like 150 years ago, when the young, fair-haired Gen. George Armstrong Custer lured Southerners into an ambush on July 2, 1863.
July 6, 2013 - Stars and Stripes - ‘Tonto’s got a bird on his head’
There's a photo of Gen. George Armstrong Custer's chief scout, half-Lakota, half-French guide Mitch Boyer, in Nathaniel Philbrick's Custer biography, "The Last Stand." In the black-and-white portrait, Boyer is wearing a fur cap decorated with what look to be two stuffed blue jays, one above each ear.
July 4, 2013 - Albuquerque Journal