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The real Custer : from boy general to tragic hero / James S. Robbins.

by Robbins, James S., 1962-

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Washington, DC : Regnery History, c2014.

Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876.

United States. Army -- Biography.

Generals -- United States -- Biography.

Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895.

Indians of North America -- Wars -- Great Plains.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.

9781621572091 (hbk.) :

1621572099 (hbk.)

xvi, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"My voice is for war!" -- Custer the goat -- The brotherhood broken -- "A slim, long-haired boy, carelessly dressed" -- "I promise that you shall hear of me" -- "Conspicuous gallantry" -- Gettysburg -- The "daring, terrible demon" of battle -- The Buckland races -- The Dahlgren Affair -- Little Phil -- Into the Valley -- "Let the sword decide the contest" -- Custer's counterinsurgency -- "Custer is a trump" -- "Fighting like a Viking" -- "Custer against the world" -- "Like the charge of a Sioux chieftain" -- The "long-haired hero of the lash" -- The "swing around the circle" -- Court-martial -- Washita -- Custer on the plains -- The great buffalo hunt -- Battle on the Yellowstone -- Custer's Gulch -- Grant's revenge -- "Don't be greedy" -- A ridge too far -- "He will never fight anymore."

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