Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
Dates
- Existence: 1839 - 1876
Biography
George Armstrong Custer; b. Dec. 5, 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio; d. June 25, 1876 at Little Bighorn River, Montana Territory; U.S. cavalry officer; graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., 1861; served in the Civil War, became brigadier general; killed at Battle of Little Bighorn.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Kuhlman collection on the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Collection includes correspondence with Custer historians (indexed), writings concerning the battle, research and reference files (indexed), maps and photographs of the battle site, biographical material on Kuhlman, memorabilia, and other papers. Correspondents include Earl Alonzo Brininstool, Fred Dustin, Robert Spurrier Ellison, W. A. Falconer, Edward Smith Luce, and Elwood L. Nye.
Russell Gordon Carter letter to Robert Bruce
ALS (plus 1 p. typescript) in which Carter comments that the printing of articles critical of George A. Custer is inappropriate since Mrs. Custer is still living. Carter expresses the belief that the true story of the Custer tragedy will not be told until the notes of Walter Mason Camp are available.
Hugh Shick papers
Photocopies of handwritten notes, indexes, and bibliographies relating to George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, and the Seventh Calvary.
With the Indian and the buffalo in Montana
Detailed handwritten account of his activities during the campaigns against the Cheyenne, Sioux, and Nez Perce tribes during the 1870s. His unit was the first on the scene of Custer's massacre on the Little Bighorn (1876), and he describes the battlefield in great depth, and also provides personal speculations on the specifics of the fight.
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- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 11
- Drafts (Documents) 7
- Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1876 3
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 3
- Cheyenne Indians -- Wars, 1876 2
- Histories (Literary works) 2
- Letters 2
- Nez Percé Indians -- Wars, 1877 2
- Notes 2
- Adobe Walls, Battle of, Tex., 1874 1
- Bibliographies 1
- Cheyenne Indians -- History 1
- Cheyenne Indians -- Wars -- History -- Sources 1
- Correspondence 1
- Dakota Indians -- History 1
- Fort Fetterman (Wyo.) -- History 1
- Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 1
- Historians -- Correspondence 1
- Indexes 1
- Legend into history 1
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.) 1
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (Mont.) -- Maps 1
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 -- Personal narratives 1
- Material Types 1
- Montana -- History 1
- Nez Percé Indians -- History 1
- Pawnee Indians -- History 1
- Reminiscences 1
- Research (Documents) 1
- Soldiers -- United States -- Bibliography 1
- Territorial Government 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literary collections 1
- Washita Campaign, 1868-1869 1 + ∧ less