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Thomas Ward Custer (March 15, 1845 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor for bravery during the American Civil War. A younger brother of George Armstrong Custer , he served as his aide at the Battle of Little Bighorn against the Lakota and Cheyenne in the Montana Territory .
Boston Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, one of five children born to Emanuel Henry Custer and Maria Ward Kirkpatrick Custer. In 1863, the family left Ohio and moved to Monroe, Michigan . Boston's older brother Nevin became a farmer due to asthma and rheumatism, while two other older brothers, George and Thomas ("Tom"), became military ...
In 1871, he became the regimental adjutant under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Cooke became close friends with Thomas Custer and was a member of the so-called "Custer Clan" or "Custer Gang", a close-knit group of Custer's friends and relatives. He was an excellent shot and one of the fastest runners of the regiment.
On July 18, 1885, Grant finished his memoir, [534] which includes the events of his life to the end of the Civil War. [535] The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant was a critical and commercial success. Julia Grant eventually received about $450,000 in royalties (equivalent to $15,300,000 in 2023).
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[1] Custer was a Union Army war hero who had strong ties to leading Republican figures like Edwin Stanton, U.S. Senator Zachariah Chandler, and U.S. Representative John Bingham, but per historian Stephen Ambrose, Custer's personal politics favored the views of the "southern–Andrew Johnson" contingent, and he alienated Republican allies with ...
Vine Victor Deloria Jr. (March 26, 1933 – November 13, 2005, Standing Rock Sioux) was an author, theologian, historian, and activist for Native American rights.He was widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (1969), which helped attract national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement.
In 1991, the book was adapted as a television miniseries, written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Mike Robe, and featuring Gary Cole as General Custer and Rodney A. Grant as Crazy Horse. [5] An audiobook edition was released by Recorded Books in 1985, narrated by Adrian Cronauer .