custer in the civil war

Men of Custer's division who gained the Medal of Honor in the Shenandoah Valley, during the Civil War CUSTER'S HEROES Medal of Honor recipients : Hartwell B. Compson, Robert Niven, & Andrew Kuder, Charles Goheen, Daniel Kelly, Henry Bickford, James Congdon,...

The Story of Generals Young and Custer CUSTER'S CONFEDERATE FRIEND source: Cartersville Bartow County Pierce Manning Butler Young was a young West Point cadet in 1861 from Cartersville, Georgia. His roommate, George Armstrong Custer, was a Yankee. They...

How Custer managed his units during Civil War battles CUSTER'S TACTICS edited by "conz" , military officer, West Point graduate, LBH.info source: Custer Victorious , by Gregory J. Urwin, Bison Books Time is of the essence: “Custer was still a good two...

General Custer's triumph during the Civil War THE BATTLE OF WAYNESBORO by Roy Morris Jr., America's Civil War Magazine, March 2001, HistoryNet The winter of 1864-65 was one of the harshest on record in Virginia's war-torn Shenandoah Valley. Heavy snows...

BATTLE OF ALDIE : Captain Custer leads the charge. BATTLE OF TOM'S BROOK (Woodstock Races): Major General Custer salutes Confederate General Thomas Rosser, who was his classmate at West Point. This will be one of the greatest victories of the Union cavalry...

When Civil War's John Singleton Mosby's Partisan Rangers clashed with George A. Custer's Union Cavalry, the niceties of war were the first casualty. Reprisal and counter reprisal became the order of the day. CUSTER vs MOSBY : CLASH IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY...

Custer in the Civil War CUSTER'S MEDAL To make his men proud of their unit, General George A. Custer created a medal, the "Custer Medal". A star, two crossed sabers and a cross were designed and eventually made by an industry in New York. On the cross,...

George Armstrong Custer: Between Myth and Reality By Historian Jeffry D. Wert, author of "Custer, the controversial life of George A. Custer" (1996) March/April 2006 issue of Civil War Times Magazine. History Net George Armstrong Custer stalks America's...