George Armstrong Custer Biography

Born December 5, 1839

New Rumley, Ohio

Died June 25, 1876

Montana

U.S. Army officer

Despite his early achievements as the "Boy General," the flamboyant George Armstrong Custer is most remembered for his death.

George Armstrong Custer made a name for himself early. As the youngest general in the Union army during the Civil War (1861–65; a war fought between the Northern and Southern United States over the issue of slavery), he...

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