Colonel Custer

So basically George Armstrong Custer, or better known as Colonel Custer was a United States army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil War and the Indian wars in the late 1800s. Custer is most known from Custer gained a ditch reputation during the Civil War, He was was there for the first big battle of the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run, and it was also helpful that he associated with a lot of the Commanding officers. Custer was also ended up being a Lieutenant Officer of the reggies (regular) army.

George Custer also married a women by the name of Elizabeth Clift Bacon on February 9th, 1864. Custer was born in December of 1839. He lived to be 36 years of age when he died at The Battle of Little Big Horn where it was a mass murder of Union Soldiers by Indians. He had two younger brothers named Thomas and Boston Custer whom also both died with him in battle as did everyone else in the group. Custer also served 15 years in the army.

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