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Custer : the controversial life of George Armstrong Custer / Jeffry D. Wert.

Title
Custer : the controversial life of George Armstrong Custer / Jeffry D. Wert.
Author
Wert, Jeffry D.
Publication
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.

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Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
Description
462 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Study of the life of George Armstrong Custer, examining his role in the Civil War and the postwar decade, looking at his romance and marriage to his devoted wife Libbie, and discussing the disasterous battle at Little Big Horn.
Subject
  • Custer, George A. 1839-1876
  • United States. Army > Biography
  • Generals > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
"Yellow-Haired Laddie" -- West Point -- A Beginning -- Libbie -- "Come On, You Wolverines" -- "Fighting was His Business" -- "My Own Bright Particular Star" -- Marriage -- "Where in Hell is the Rear?" -- "Daughter of the Stars" -- Major General -- "The Best Cavalry General in the Army" -- Reconstruction Soldier -- Court-Martial -- Winter War -- North to Dakota -- Lakota Gold -- Toward Little Big Horn -- Montana Hill
ISBN
0684810433
LCCN
^^^96007290^
OCLC
  • 34319508
  • SCSB-11282166
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library