The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Author: Douglas C. Jones
Publisher: iBooks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781596873544

Suppose that George Armstrong Custer did not die at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Suppose that, instead, he was found close to death at the scene of the defeat and was brought to trial for his actions. With a masterful blend of fact and fiction, The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer tells us what might have happened at that trial as it brings to life the most exciting period in the history of the American West. About the Author Douglas C. Jones served in the U.S. Army until his retirement in 1968. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin.

Custer's Trials

Custer's Trials
Author: T.J. Stiles
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307475948

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a capable yet insecure man, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (court-martialed twice in six years) and the new corporate economy, a wartime emancipator who rejected racial equality. Stiles argues that, although Custer was justly noted for his exploits on the western frontier, he also played a central role as both a wide-ranging participant and polarizing public figure in his extraordinary, transformational time—a time of civil war, emancipation, brutality toward Native Americans, and, finally, the Industrial Revolution—even as he became one of its casualties. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation. It casts surprising new light on one of the best-known figures of American history, a subject of seemingly endless fascination.

The Court-martial of George Armstrong Custer

The Court-martial of George Armstrong Custer
Author: Douglas Clyde Jones
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1976
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

George Armstrong Custer, the golden-boy of the 7th Cavalry, is miraculously found alive among the hundreds of dead soldiers. Then, as a stunned nation looks on, he is put on trial for disobeying orders. While the prosecutor shows Custer as a murderous grandstander, reckless with the lives of his men, the public wants desperately to believe that their hero made a simple mistake. Finally, it's Custer's turn to reveal what really happened that sweltering day along the Little Bighorn.

Touched by Fire

Touched by Fire
Author: Louise Barnett
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2006-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780803262669

A comprehensive and balanced biography of the controversial George Armstrong Custer.

Crazy Horse and Custer

Crazy Horse and Custer
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 711
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1497659256

A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages. Both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie.

The Court-Martial of George

The Court-Martial of George
Author: Douglas C. Jones
Publisher: HarperTorch
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1996-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780061010309

An alternative historical novel considers the life of George Armstrong Custer if he had lived beyond his 7th Cavalry battles and places him on trial, where he is called upon to explain what really happened at Little Bighorn. Reprint.

Custer

Custer
Author: Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Some historians think he may have been the finest cavalry officer in the Union Army.

The Warrior Generals

The Warrior Generals
Author: Thomas Buell
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 529
Release: 1998-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0609801732

master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of the Civil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs of commanders from the North and South, who met each other in battle. Following each pair through the entire war, the author reveals the human dimensions of the drama and brings the battles to life. 38 b&w photos.

Custer at Gettysburg

Custer at Gettysburg
Author: Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2023-06-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0811768929

“A mosaic of thousands of tiny pieces that, seen whole, amounts to a fascinating picture of what probably was the most important moment of the Civil War.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times bestselling author of The Generals George Armstrong Custer is famous for his fatal defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876, but Custer’s baptism of fire came during the Civil War. His true rise to prominence began at Gettysburg in 1863. On the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg, Custer received promotion to brigadier general and command—his first direct field command—of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, the “Wolverines.” Custer did not disappoint his superiors, who promoted him in a search for more aggressive cavalry officers. At approximately noon on July 3, 1863, the melee that was East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg began. An hour or two into the battle, after many of his cavalrymen had been reduced to hand-to-hand infantry-style fighting, Custer ordered a charge of one of his regiments and led it into action himself, screaming one of the battle’s most famous lines: “Come on, you Wolverines!” Around three o’clock, the Confederates led by Stuart mounted a final charge, which mowed down Union cavalry—until it ran into Custer’s Wolverines, who stood firm, breaking the Confederates’ last attack. In a book combining two popular subjects, Tucker recounts the story of Custer at Gettysburg with verve, shows how the Custer legend was born on the fields of the war’s most famous battle, and offers eye-opening new perspectives on Gettysburg’s overlooked cavalry battle. “A thoughtful and challenging new look at the great assault at Gettysburg . . . Tucker is fresh and bold in his analysis and use of sources.” —William C. Davis, author of Crucible of Command