Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer - Tapa dura

Wert, Jeffry D.

 
9780684810430: Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer
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ISBN 10: 0684810433 ISBN 13: 9780684810430
Editorial: Simon & Schuster, 1996

Sinopsis

George Armstrong Custer has been so heavily mythologized that the human being has been all but lost. Now, in the first complete biography in decades. Jeffrey Wert reexamines the life of the famous soldier to give us Custer in all his colorful complexity.
Although remembered today as the loser at Little Big Horn, Custer was the victor of many cavalry engagements in the Civil War. He played an important role in several battles in the Virginia theater of the war, including the Shenandoah campaign. Renowned for his fearlessness in battle, he was always in front of his troops, leading the charge. His men were fiercely loyal to him, and he was highly regarded by Sheridan and Grant as well. Some historians think he may have been the finest cavalry officer in the Union Army.
But when he was assigned to the Indian wars on the Plains, life changed drastically for Custer. No longer was he in command of soldiers bound together by a cause they believed in. Discipline problems were rampant, and Custer's response to them earned him a court-martial. There were long lulls in the fighting, during which time Custer turned his attention elsewhere, often to his wife, Libbie Bacon Custer, to whom he was devoted. Their romance and marriage is a remarkable love story, told here in part through their personal correspondence. After Custer's death, Libbie would remain faithful to his memory until her own death nearly six decades later.

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Jeffrey D. Wert teaches history at Penns Valley High School.

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Editorial
Simon & Schuster
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0684810433
ISBN 13 
9780684810430
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Número de páginas
16
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