[bill1952]

FYI one of grants chief complaints about him was that he had more horsees shot from under him & more men killed than any one else in the civil war

LOL! - Such one sidedness!
That very quality was what motivated Sherman to demand the appointment of Custer as his Cavalry chief during his march to the Sea, and we all know how that worked out.

"I know that some consider him to be a damned fool, but it is just that kind of damned fool that I want to lead my Cavalry on this campaign"

Cut it how you like, but Custer was a daring and brave leader of fighting men whose subordinates failed him and 210 other men who all paid for those shortcomings with everything that they had to pay.

[drzz]

You are right about Custer's achievement. His casualties were caused by his greatness as a general. Sheridan was using Custer as the elite, always sent where the battle was the hottest. Custer was America's last knight in the most litteral sense of the word. "Custer is the ablest man of the cavalry." General in chief of the Union cavalry in General Grant's army, Philip Sheridan

[mtnjimmi]

Custer, Cut it how you like, but Custer was a daring and brave leader of fighting men whose subordinates failed him and 210 other men who all paid for those shortcomings with everything that they had to pay. history by the "hero's" wife a true measure of how history should be written, with rose colored glasses.