Custer led little more than 200 men in an attack on the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull's camp on Montana's Little Bighorn River.

In 1861, Cadet George Armstrong Custer (1839–1876) graduated last in his class at West Point. Four years later, when the Civil War ended, he was a major general commanding a division of cavalry.

Like everything else about General George Custer, his martyrdom was shrouded in controversy and contradictions. The final act of his larger-than-life career played out on a grand stage with a ...

Lieutenant Colonel Custer and US Army troops shown with Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes on the Little Bighorn, Montana, battlefield, as rendered by illustrators. (Wikimedia Commons) By ...

General Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago, but for descendants of the Battle of Little Bighorn’s two protagonists the fight continues. Retiree George Armstrong Custer IV, aged 70, is now facing ...

It is easy to forget that Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer did anything of significance before the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. So gaudily iconic is his last stand—in which he and five companies of ...