Did you appreciate the role Custer played in saving the battle that day?
Lee’s plan was to have Stuart’s horses in the rear of the Union line to cause them to panic... while assaulting then from the front. But the assault from the front went of very late -2 pm.
And Custer’s reckless and bold leadership stopped the Confederate horse in the rear.
Of the casualties on the Union side, I think 90 percent were Custer’s men.
I was surprised that Custer was at Gettysburg—as a major.
He was the key to routing Stuart.
His death 14 years later at Little Big Horn has been the source of much speculation of political intrigues due to his popularity and ambitions and whether he may have been “set up”.