Life In Custer S Cavalry

Author : Albert Barnitz,Jennie Barnitz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803295537

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Life in Custer's Cavalry by Albert Barnitz,Jennie Barnitz Pdf

Albert and Jennie Barnitz "were both perceptive, articulate individuals who fully realized that they were involved in fascinating historically important events. They have left a record of frontier military life that can scarcely be matched elsewhere. . . . Historian and buff alike will find this volume both enlightening and entertaining."--Paul A. Hutton, Journal of American History "The reader will come to like Albert and Jennie Barnitz, whose letters trigger a time machine in which we come to know a good deal more about Life in Custer's Cavalry."--Montana "Albert Barnitz. . .served with Custer's famed Seventh Cavalry for four years, 1867-70. . . . In 1867 Albert and Jennie (Platt), both of Ohio, married and headed for the Kansas frontier. Four months later the growing perils of Indian clashes forced her to return east. . . . [Their] letters and diaries, dated from January 17, 1867, to February 10, 1869, are vivid and accurate. . . . [They] provide a keen picture of life in the Seventh Cavalry, both in garrison and field, immediately after the Civil War."--The Historian Editor Robert Utley's books available in Bison Books editions include Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life; Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891; and Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865.

Author : Katherine Gibson Fougera
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1986-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803268602

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With Custer's Cavalry by Katherine Gibson Fougera Pdf

A wife?s premonition spared Lieutenant Francis M. Gibson from the fate that overtook General George A. Custer and the Seventh U. S. Cavalry. At her insistence, he declined a transfer that would have placed him in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but he was on the scene immediately after it. Gibson?s letters detailing the devastation, together with his wife?s reports on the women at the army posts waiting for news, allow a fresh perspective on "Custer's Last Stand." Told in the first person, With Custer's Cavalry represents the story of Katherine Gibson, the author's mother, who supplied all of the material. Mrs. Gibson describes a phase of army life during the 1870s and 1880s that has received scant attention--a gala wedding, a baby's funeral, a sewing bee, a buffalo stampede, a smallpox epidemic. She provides candid glimpses of her good friends, the Custers. And every page brings the reader closer to the intimate events surrounding the most infamous battle in the history of the West.

Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Generals
ISBN : BL:A0022016762

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My life on the plains or, Personal experiences with Indians by George Armstrong Custer Pdf

Author : Marguerite Merington
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803281382

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The Custer Story by Marguerite Merington Pdf

Selected letters offer an inside look at the relationship of Custer and his wife, and their impressions of frontier life, the Civil War, and politics

Author : Frederic F. Van De Water
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789127829

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Glory-Hunter by Frederic F. Van De Water Pdf

George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. He worked closely with General McClellan and the future General Alfred Pleasonton, who both recognized his qualities as a cavalry leader, and he was brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers at age 23. At Gettysburg, he commanded the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, and defeated Jeb Stuart’s assault on Cemetery Ridge, while greatly outnumbered. In 1864, Custer served in the Overland Campaign and in Sheridan’s army in the Shenandoah Valley, defeating Jubal Early at Cedar Creek. His division blocked Lee’s final retreat and received the first flag of truce from the Confederates, Custer being present at Lee’s surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox. After the war, Custer was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the Regular Army, and sent west to fight in the Indian Wars. On June 25, 1876, while leading the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory against a coalition of Native American tribes, he was killed along with over one third of his command during an action later romanticized as “Custer’s Last Stand”. “Frederic F. Van de Water has written the Custer book to end all Custer books....[It is] based upon profound research...[and a] thorough understanding of the motivations which shaped Custer’s meteoric career.”—Books. “Mr. Van de Water has accumulated evidence until it can hardly be questioned. There is enough of it to damn the man as hard, cruel, and irresponsible....At any rate, the story has an epic movement, and at last is heart-stirring and somberly beautiful.”—New York Times. “General Custer was a tangle of contradictions. His wife ‘enshrined her husband in the folklore of America.’ Now Mr. Van de Water, without fear or favor, gives us a complete and unsparing analysis of the man.”—William Rose Benét, Saturday Review of Literature.

Author : Frederick Whittaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Generals
ISBN : BL:A0026114370

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A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer by Frederick Whittaker Pdf

Author : Frederick Whittaker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803297432

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A Complete Life of General George A. Custer: From Appomattox to the Little Big Horn by Frederick Whittaker Pdf

This first biography of General George A. Custer was published late in 1876, only months after the disaster at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. A Complete Life was the beginning of a legend, and Frderick Whittaker did more than anyone else except Libby Custer to make the flamboyant Boy General a permanent resident of the national consciousness. Quite asideøfrom its contribution to the public image of Custer, this important book placed him and his associates against a concrete background of onrushing events. Drawing on newspaper reports and the general's own words, Whittaker captures the excitement of the era. Continuing the story of Custer from Volume 1, which dealt with his childhood in Ohio, cadetship at West Point, courtship of Elizabeth Bacon, and service as a cavalryman in the Civil War, Volume 2 takes Custer west to head up the newly created Seventh Cavalry and fight the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Sioux. Whittaker gives full scope to Custer's brushes with authority, his changeable relations with his troops, and his famous expeditions, ending with a memorable description of his last stand at the Little Big Horn in June 1876.

Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher : Bison Books
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 0803250428

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My Life on the Plains by George Armstrong Custer Pdf

The personal narrative of the most famous cavalry leader America ever produced, this book, representing the major part of Custer's life, was first published some two years before the General's death. It is a vivid picture of the American West, the rigors of life for the settlers, and the horrors of Indian warfare. Custer, in this intensely personal account, made a major contribution to American history. **Lightning Print On Demand Title Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Frederick Whittaker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368721572

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A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer by Frederick Whittaker Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author : Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : EAN:4064066059736

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Boots and Saddles (Illustrated Edition) by Elizabeth Bacon Custer Pdf

Elizabeth "Libbie" Bacon and General Custer's honeymoon was interrupted in 1864 when he was called to duty with the Army of the Potomac. From that point on, Elizabeth followed her husband on all major assignments. Her story is the firsthand account of the Civil War and the military operations afterwards with the special aim to glorify General Custer's memory.

Author : Frederick Whittaker
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1289786674

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A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer by Frederick Whittaker Pdf

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Author : Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Black Hills War, 1876-1877
ISBN : HARVARD:HWWUKM

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Boots and Saddles; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth Bacon Custer Pdf

Recounts the author's experience on the Dakota frontier as a military wife in the United States Army during the Indian Wars.

Author : Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684832753

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Custer by Jeffry D. Wert Pdf

Draws on previously overlooked documents to probe the puzzles that have continued to mark the legendary general's life and career.

Author : Donald Jackson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803257503

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Custer's Gold by Donald Jackson Pdf

Accounts of military life of troops with General George Custer during his successful search for gold on Sioux lands in the Black Hills in Dakota territory.

Author : Adolfo Ovies
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611216189

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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac by Adolfo Ovies Pdf

The second installment of Al Ovies’ The Boy Generals trilogy, George Custer, Wesley Merritt and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, from the Gettysburg Retreat through the Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, encompasses a period jammed with tumultuous events for the cavalry on and off the battlefield and a significant change of command at the top. Once below the Potomac River, the Union troopers raced down the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains but were unable to prevent General Lee’s wounded Army of Northern Virginia from reaching Culpeper. The balance of the 1863 was a series of maneuvers, raids, and fighting that witnessed the near-destruction of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade at Buckland Mills and the indecisive and frustrating efforts of the Bristoe Station and Mine Run campaigns. Alfred Pleasonton’s controversial command of the mounted arm ended abruptly, only to be replaced by the more controversial Philip H. Sheridan, whose combustible personality intensified the animosity burning between George Custer and Wesley Merritt. Victory and glory followed the Cavalry Corps during the early days of Overland campaign, particularly at Yellow Tavern, where Rebel cavalier Jeb Stuart was mortally wounded. The “spirited rivalry” between Custer and Merritt, in turn, took a turn for the worse. At Trevilian Station, the bitterness and rancor permeating their relationship broke into the open to include harsh official reports critical of the other’s actions. Merritt’s elevation to temporary command of the 1st Cavalry Division cemented their rancor. Just as their relationship worsened, so too did the tenor of the war darken as the sieges of Richmond and Petersburg ground on, and Confederate partisan Col. John S. Mosby intensified guerrilla operations that disrupted Union logistics in the Shenandoah Valley. When Gen. Ulysses Grant demanded that Sheridan escalate retribution, the cavalry commander delivered his infamous edict to “eat out Virginia clear and clean as far as they go, so that crows flying over it for the balance of the season will have to carry their provender with them.” Much of the gritty task fell on the shoulders of the boy generals. Adolfo Ovies’ well-researched and meticulously detailed account of the increasingly dysfunctional relationship between Custer and Merritt follows the same entertaining style in the first installment. The Boy Generals changes the way Civil War enthusiasts will understand and judge the actions of the Union’s bold riders.