Old West Point applicant letters being put online

Yahoo ia AP ^ | 11/10/10 | Chris Carola

[DFG]

Years before leading his vastly outnumbered troops to their doom at Little Bighorn, a young George Armstrong Custer was described as accurate in math.

Nearly 30 years before his March to the Sea laid waste to a large swath of Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman was deemed a "fine energetic boy."

And two decades before he would earn the nickname "Stonewall," Thomas J. Jackson's dreams of a military career got a boost from a man who would help start the Civil War.

[NonValueAdded]

... George Armstrong Custer was described as accurate in math.

I thought he had serious problems with counting :)

[davisfh]

"I thought he had serious problems with counting" :)

Very funny. To be accurate and fair, shouldn't we include letter of application from Virginia Military Institute as well?

[Electric Graffiti]

Awesome......thanks for the post.

[Clioman]

Are we talking about THE George Custer? The inventor of the Arrow shirt?

[lurk]

Math problem:

If you have 200 tired horse soldiers who have ridden all night, and Sitting Bull has 2000 strong braves who just stepped out of their teepees, how many minutes will it take Sitting Bull to kill every soldier at the rate of 5 soldiers per minute?

[NonValueAdded]

I believe that was the last question on Custer’s final exam. ;)

[theDentist]

I thought he had serious problems with counting :)

No, it was with division. When you take the divisor (700 men) into the the dividend (2500 braves), you get the remainder of the division (55).

[Bigh4u2]

40 minutes.

:0)

[kalee]

ping

[Ingtar]

... and how many of the Indians will you have to rape to provoke Sitting Bull into attacking?

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