The Court-martial of George Armstrong Custer
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Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Mock trials |
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Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Mock trials |
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Author | : Douglas Clyde Jones |
Publisher | : Scribner Book Company |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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George Armstrong Custer, the golden-boy of the 7th Cavalry, is miraculously found alive among the hundreds of dead soldiers. Then, as a stunned nation looks on, he is put on trial for disobeying orders. While the prosecutor shows Custer as a murderous grandstander, reckless with the lives of his men, the public wants desperately to believe that their hero made a simple mistake. Finally, it's Custer's turn to reveal what really happened that sweltering day along the Little Bighorn.
Author | : Lawrence A. Frost |
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Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Douglas C. Jones |
Publisher | : iBooks |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781596874671 |
Suppose that George Armstrong Custer did not die at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Suppose that, instead, he was found close to death at the scene of the defeat and was brought to trial for his actions. With a masterful blend of fact and fiction, The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer tells us what might have happened at that trial as it brings to life the most exciting period in the history of the American West. About the Author Douglas C. Jones served in the U.S. Army until his retirement in 1968. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin.
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Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry |
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Information on the October 11, 1867 court martial of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer. Includes charges, finding, members of the court, and resources for further reading.
Author | : Douglas C. Jones |
Publisher | : HarperTorch |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1996-04-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780061010309 |
An alternative historical novel considers the life of George Armstrong Custer if he had lived beyond his 7th Cavalry battles and places him on trial, where he is called upon to explain what really happened at Little Bighorn. Reprint.
Author | : Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
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Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : John Gay |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : T.J. Stiles |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2015-10-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307592642 |
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer’s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person—capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer’s tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.
Author | : Jeffry D. Wert |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 1997-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0684832755 |
Draws on previously overlooked documents to probe the puzzles that have continued to mark the legendary general's life and career.