George Armstrong Custer

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December 5, 1839 - George Armstrong Custer, United States Army officer and in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars, born in New Rumley, Ohio (d. 1876)

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Recently there was a bit of movement to take down the Custer statue in Monroe, Michigan (Custer had settled there). There was a case to be made that, as a known killer of native-Americans, his statue should not grace it's prominent place by the main street where it crosses the Raisin River.

Apparently Monroe citizenry arrived at solution, to add information to the site that plays up Custer's service as a Civil War general, to defer any implication that Custer's post-war activity is the definition of the man. www.hillsdale.net/news/20200722/compromise-reached-on-monroes-custer-statue

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What's fun about Custer is what's fun about these ambitious, flashy men - they're not complicated and always see themselves as superheroes. He would not have thought the statue great enough, so they may as well take it down.... But, Custer didn't do near what others have done, and their statues are not controversial because no one ever heard of them.
 
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Here's an article from South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Custer seems to have taken half his family with him when he departed this earth. I think the photo is as remarkable as the monument to Crazy Horse breaking its nose!

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Custer Family Tragedy

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diane said:
Here's an article from South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Custer seems to have taken half his family with him when he departed this earth. I think the photo is as remarkable as the monument to Crazy Horse breaking its nose!

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Custer Family Tragedy

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He did bring death to his own family that day which is ignore in our history books...
 
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Here Custer wrote a book but another Union officer said he wrote the book... William Babcock Hazen : who did write at least two books himself... This is were a computer a modern Literature Foreensic could solve the controversy with computers... There enough written material for computers to give us a reasonable conclusion...

Here is the person in question...

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William Babcock Hazen - Wikipedia

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Hazen also engaged in controversy by criticizing George Armstrong Custer's book Life on the Plains in one of his own books. (Custer had criticized Hazen's dealings with chief Black Kettle before Washita River.) Hazen's relationships with Custer and with his superiors in the post-war army were such that the writer Ambrose Bierce called him "The best hated man I ever knew".[6] Hazen even managed to offend Lt. Gen. William T. Sherman, a former friend and an ally against Belknap.

The book is still credited to Custer... publish in 1874

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Well , the history books never told us an Indian woman knock Custer from his horse... Yes, an Indian woman warrior. She also rally her Indian male warriors to win another battle...

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Custer got beat up by a girl? Hadn't heard that before! Women warriors and war chiefs were much more common than is said. The Rogue Valley Shasta were led by a woman general whose name we no longer know - and she was formidable. In fact, when the people heard American soldiers were reluctant to shoot women, all of a sudden there were LOTS of women in with the men, who weren't bashful about standing behind them. Gentlemen they weren't!
 
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george armstrong custer celebrating his german heritage by choosing the proper headwear for having his picture taken in new york city

 
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