Complete Life of General George A. Custer, Major-General of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General U. S.

by Whittaker, Frederick

• ISBN13: 9781582180403
• ISBN10: 1582180407
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

This book aims to give the world the life of George Armstrong Custer, one of the few really great men that America has produced. Beginning at the foot of the social ladder, he rose to the top rapidly and phenomenally. Much of Custer's success has been attributed to good fortune, while it was really the result of a wonderful capacity for hard and energetic work, and a rapidity of intuition which is seldom found apart from military genius of the highest order.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Remarks	1	(2)
FIRST BOOK - THE BOY
Early Life	3	(14)
Birthplace and Boyhood
Going to School
First Love
The Nomination to West Point
Plebe Custer	17	(8)
The Sorrows of a Plebe
The First Camp
Cadet Custer	25	(24)
Becoming a Real Cadet
Riding Lessons
``Benny Havens, Oh!''
The Coming of the War
The Attack on Fort Sumter
Graduation Time
A Court-martial
Lucky Escape
SECOND BOOK - THE SUBALTERN
Lieutenant Custer, Second Cavalry	49	(10)
Going to Washington
Ordered to take Despatches to McDowell-Night Ride to Centreville
Bull Run	59	(18)
Custer joins his Troop
Incidents of the Battle
The Panic
The Defeat
Organizing an Army	77	(16)
The New General
Custer on Staff Duty
Sick Leave
The Pledge
The Peninsular Campaign	93	(10)
Custer's First Charge
The Transports
The Peninsula
Yorktown
Winning the Bars	103	(16)
The Evacuation
The Pursuit
Williamsburg
The Advance on the Chickahominy
Custer made a Captain
THIRD BOOK - THE CAPTAIN
From Richmond to Malvern Hill	119	(6)
The Battle of Fairoaks
McClellan's Peril
A Month's Respite
Seven Days
Custer's Letters
McClellan's Removal	125	(16)
Harrison's Landing
Custer's Letters
The Maryland Campaign-McClellan Deposed
Custer at Monroe
The Course of True Love
The Cavalry Corps	141	(12)
The Winter of 1862-3
Custer on Pleasonton's Staff
The Urbana Expedition
Winning his Star	153	(14)
Battle of Aldie-Custer to the Front-Promoted
FOURTH BOOK - THE MICHIGAN BRIGADE
The Gettysburg Campaign	167	(14)
The Boy General with the Golden Locks
The Battle of Gettysburg
Custer as a Cavalry Chief
After Gettysburg	181	(12)
Lee's Retreat
Captures of Trains
Falling Waters
A Squadron Captures a Brigade
Lee Escapes
To the Rapidan and Back	193	(26)
Advance on Culpepper
Meads's Retreat
Battle of Buckland's Mills
End of Campaign
Love Letters and Orange Blossoms
The Wilderness and the Valley	219	(12)
Sheridan in Command
The First Raid
The Second Raid
Early in Maryland
The Cavalry Ordered to the Valley
Winchester	231	(16)
Playing Chess with Early
The False Move
Custer at Winchester
FIFTH BOOK - THE THIRD CAVALRY DIVISION
Woodstock Races	247	(16)
Assigned to the Third Division
Rosser against Custer
Sheridan's Orders
``Whip or Get Whipped''
Woodstock Races
Cedar Creek	263	(8)
Sheridan Ordered to Washington
Early's Surprise of Wright
The Battle of Cedar Creek-Plunder of the Union Camps
Arrival of Sheridan
Early's Overthrow Custer and Merritt finishing the Victory
Results of the Valley Campaign
The Last Raid	271	(8)
Waynesboro'- Cutting the Canals
Chasing Early
Nearing Richmond
Back with the Army
Five Forks	279	(18)
Advance on Five Forks-Devin's Repulse
The 5th Corps
The Victory
The Pursuit
Appomattox	297	(12)
Heading off Lee
Sailor's Creek
The Night March
Appomattox
Lee's Surrender
Custer's Last Order
The Great Parade	309	(6)
From Richmond to Washington
Close of Custer's War Career
SIXTH BOOK. - AFTER THE WAR
The Volunteers in Texas	315	(10)
The State of the Country
Discontent of the Men
Mutiny
Discharge of the Volunteers
Custer in Texas
The Regular Army	325	(12)
Peculiar Hardships of the American Regular Army
Jealousy of the Nation
The Old and the New Army
Settling Down
The Seventh Cavalry	337	(12)
Description of the Regiment
Its Officers and Men
Custer and President Johnson
Ordered to Kansas
SEVENTH BOOK. - ON THE PLAINS
The Hancock Expedition	349	(14)
Causes of the Expedition
Escape of the Tribes
The Pursuit
The First Buffalo
The Lost Trail
War
The First Scout	363	(8)
Learning Indian Tricks
Pawnee Killer's Repulse
Skirmishes
The Wagon Train	371	(12)
The March to Fort Wallace
The Return
The Attack
Circling
Arrival of Help
Saved
The Kidder Masacre	383	(14)
The Telegram
Finding the Bodies
A Mother's Love
The Court Martial	397	(16)
The Mutiny
The March
Custer Court-martialled
The Winter Campaign	413	(12)
Wanted, a General-Custer sent for
Starting on the Trail
Battle of the Washita	425	(28)
The Trail in the Snow
Charge on Black Kettle
How to Fight Indians
Triumphant Return of the Seventh
Closing Operations	453	(18)
How Custer volunteered to bring the Kiowas, Arapahoes and Cheyennes to Peace
How he did it
Louisville to the Yellowstone	471	(30)
Custer in Kentucky
Ordered North
The Sioux
A Narrow Escape
The Black Hills	501	(14)
Rumors of Gold
A Terra Incognita
The Custer Column
Rain-in-the-Face	515	(14)
Murderer's Boasts
The Arrest
The Grain Thieves
The Escape
The Oath of Vengeance
The Sun
Dance
EIGHTH BOOK. - THE LAST CAMPAIGN
Sitting Bull	529	(8)
What is known of the Sioux Chief- His Diary
Crazy Horse	537	(8)
Reynolds' Campaign
Another Washita Spoiled
Wanted a Custer
Custer and Grant	545	(18)
The Belknap Investigation
Custer's unwilling Testimony
President Grant's Revenge
Custer's Displacement
The Great Expedition	563	(10)
Crook's Column-Gibbon's Column
The Terry Column
Rena's Scout
Custer's Departure
The Last Battle	573	(36)
Trail of Sitting Bull
Reno's Fight
Custer's Last Charge
NINTH BOOK. - SOLDIER AND MAN
Custer, The Soldier	609	(7)
Analysis of his Success
His True Rank in Military History
Custer, The Indian-Fighter	616	(9)
Savage and Civilized Warfare Contrasted
Custer's Experience
Anecdote illustrating his Knowledge of Indian Nature
Custer, the Man	625	(4)
His Generosity
Fondness for Children
Development of his Character
His Scrupulous Honor-Closing Summary
TENTH BOOK. - PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
Of General Custer, by the Great Tragedian, Lawrence Barrett	629