Custer at Gettysburg: A New Look at George Armstrong Custer versus Jen Stuart in the Battle’s Climactic Cavalry Charges (Phillip Thomas Tucker GC) dogs Brian Steel Wills

Brian Steel Wills

Over the years

The combat cleared the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley of Federal troops

Thomas's Army of the Cumberland just after it crossed Peach Tree Creek on July 20

and using him as a bargaining chip to exchange for southern soldiers being held in Union prison camps

Custer at Gettysburg: A New Look at George Armstrong Custer versus Jen Stuart in the Battle’s Climactic Cavalry Charges (Phillip Thomas Tucker GC) dogs Brian Steel WillsCuster at Gettysburg: A New Look at George Armstrong Custer versus Jeb Stuart in the Battles Climactic Cavalry Charges by Phillip Thomas Tucker George Armstrong Custer is famous for his fatal defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876, but Custers baptism of fire came during the Civil War. After graduating last in the West Point class of 1861, Custer served from the First Battle of Bull Run (only a month after graduation) through Appomattox, where he