However, he was immediately commissioned as a second lieutenant for the Union Army in the Civil War. After the war, Custer found himself on the frontier fighting a new enemy: Native Americans.

Twenty-four-year-old Brig. Gen. George A. Custer barely escaped with his life June 11, 1864, when Confederate troops surrounded his Michigan Cavalry Brigade at Trevilian Station near the ...

Bruce Smith of Norco, a Civil War Union cavalry reenactor, will present “The Battle of Trevilian Station, Custer’s First Last Stand” when the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table meets 6:30 p ...

Two college roommates and “good friends” at West Point later became opponents in the Civil War when they led cavalry units against each other on the battlefield. In 1873, they were reunited as ...

Some of the early narratives about Custer came from the man himself; because of his celebrity as a Civil War hero, Custer ghost-wrote newspaper dispatches in which he pretended to be a ...

Custer distinguished himself in several Civil War battles. After the war, he went West, where he led the Seventh Cavalry in a successful campaign against the Southern Cheyenne Indians.

There was Boston Custer, 27, George’s beloved youngest brother. Too young and physically weak to serve in the Civil War, “Bos” viewed his elder brothers with hero worship.

The Hilliard Ohio Historical Society on Aug. 13 is to recognize the lives of two American Civil War soldiers who were killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn, better known as Custer’s Last Stand.

In 1936, Elizabeth Custer, whose late husband is better remembered for his last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn than his role in the Civil War, gave the side table and her portion of the ...

Bruce Smith of Norco, a Civil War Union cavalry reenactor, will present “The Battle of Trevilian Station, Custer’s First Last Stand” when the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table meets 6:30 p ...