Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. The item is about the equipment of George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry. The book draft was submitted to t

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

The son of a village blacksmith in Ohio, Custer qualified last in his class at West Point. Yet he proved to be a brilliant Civil War commander from the moment h

On May 17, 1876, Elizabeth Bacon Custer kissed her husband George goodbye and wished him good fortune in his efforts to fulfill the Army’s orders to drive in