General George H. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, where he is honored with an annual Custer Observance on the first Saturday of June. This year activities start on June 4 with music by J.T.

This Day in History. Today is known as Victory Day among many Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho people. On this day—June 25, 1876—the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples united to overcome, defeat and ...

Before making his last stand in the Battle of Little Bighorn, Gen. George Armstrong Custer was stationed in Alexandria. This is a short way of answering a question posed by Alexandria resident Cynthia ...

Part One: Rise 1839-1865. The Accused ; The Observer ; The Protégé ; The Prodigy ; The Women ; The General ; The Hero ; The Victor -- Part Two: Fall 1865-1876. The ...

Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

Earlier this year, Linda Swink released her book, "In Their Honor." One of the "heroes" she profiled was Lt. Col. George Custer's first commanding officer in Dakota Territory. Col. David S. Stanley ...

George Armstrong Custer is one of military history's most colourful characters, a flamboyant and dashing commander. It is said that 'cometh the hour, cometh the man', and Custer's appearance on the ...

The first major mistake in the career of George Armstrong Custer was his promotion to major-general during the Civil War: he flailed through Virginia with a cavalryman’s flair that killed as many of ...

Caption title: Custer's last battle, by Edward S. Godfrey. "Reprinted, 1921, from The Century Magazine [January, 1892], for the celebration of the Forty-Fifth Anniversary of the Battle." ...