My Life on the Plains

by George Custer

Overview

George Custer ( 1839-1876 ) fought for the Union during the Civil War, but is best known for his defeat and death at The Battle of Little Bighorn.He wrote My Life on the Plains in 1874, and described the Indian Wars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614307181
Publisher:	Charles River Editors
Publication date:	03/22/2018
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	918 KB

About the Author

George Armstrong Custer attended West Point, graduating in the Class of 1861. He served as an officer in the United States Army during the Civil War. He was present at the Civil War's first major engagement, the First Battle of Bull Run, and was the officer who received General Robert E. Lee's Flag of Truce, marking Lee's surrender, at the end of the war. Custer fought with the U.S. Seventh Cavalry in the Indian Wars beginning in 1867. He was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, a battle that has come to be known as Custer's Last Stand.