Photo: statue of General George Armstrong Custer at his birthplace in New Rumley, Ohio. Credit: Brian M. Powell; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: Custer’s Funeral Held at West Point

By Tony Pettinato on October 10, 2019

An article about the burial of Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer with full military honors at West Point Cemetery on 10 October 1877... (Read More)

Illustration: "The Seventh U.S. Cavalry charging into Black Kettle's village at daylight, November 27, 1868," from Harper's Weekly, 19 December 1868. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

On This Day: Custer Destroyed Black Kettle’s Cheyenne Camp on the Washita

By Tony Pettinato on November 27, 2018

An article about the Battle of the Washita on 27 November 1868, when George Custer destroyed Black Kettle’s peaceful Cheyenne camp... (Read More)

Illustration: "Custer's Last Stand," Edgar Samuel Paxson, 1899. Credit: Whitney Gallery of Western Art; Wikimedia Commons.

Lieutenant Colonel Custer’s Infamous ‘Last Stand’ at Little Big Horn

By Tony Pettinato on June 25, 2015

An article about the Battle of the Little Big Horn on 25 June 1876, when the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho defeated George Armstrong Custer and his men... (Read More)

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