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George Armstrong Custer (New Rumley, Ohio, 5 de diciembre de 1839-Little Big Horn, Montana, 25 de junio de 1876) fue un oficial de caballería del Ejército de los Estados Unidos que participó en la guerra de Secesión y en las guerras Indias. Criado en Míchigan y Ohio, Custer fue admitido en la academia de West Point en 1857, donde se graduó como el último de su clase en 1861. Al estallido de la guerra de Secesión permaneció en el Ejército de la Unión. Durante este conflicto se ganó una gran reputación. Participó en el primer gran combate, la primera batalla de Bull Run, librada el 21 de julio de 1861 cerca de Washington D. C. Su asociación con varios oficiales importantes y su gran desempeño como comandante de caballería le permitieron ascender, pues con solo veintitrés años obtuvo el rango de general de brigada. Una semana después de este ascenso, combatió en la batalla de Gettysburg, en la que lideró varias cargas de caballería que impidieron que las fuerzas montadas confederadas atacaran la retaguardia unionista. Custer resultó herido en la batalla de Culpeper, en Virginia, el 13 de septiembre de 1863. Al año siguiente recibió otra estrella y el ascenso a general de división. Al final de la campaña de Appomattox, en la que él y sus tropas desempeñaron un papel decisivo, Custer estuvo presente en la rendición del general Robert E. Lee ante el general Ulysses S. Grant, firmada el 9 de abril de 1865. Después de la guerra de Secesión, Custer conservó el rango de general de brigada en el cuerpo de militares Voluntarios de Estados Unidos hasta que este fue desmovilizado en febrero de 1866. Recuperó el rango permanente de capitán y después fue nombrado general de brigada del 7.º Regimiento de Caballería en julio de 1866. Fue destinado al Oeste en 1867 para combatir en las guerras Indias. Casi una década después, el 25 de junio de 1876, mientras dirigía al 7.º de Caballería, Custer y dos de sus hermanos murieron en la batalla de Little Bighorn, que se libró en el territorio de Montana contra una coalición de tribus indias encabezadas por Caballo Loco y Toro Sentado. Esta derrota se hizo tan famosa que ensombreció todos los logros anteriores de George Custer. Infancia y juventud Custer nació en New Rumley (Ohio), hijo de Emanuel Henry Custer (1806-1892), herrero y granjero, y su mujer Marie Ward Kirkpatrick (1807-1882).[1]​ A lo largo de su vida Custer fue conocido por multitud de apodos: en su infancia fue llamado "Autie" (tal como de niño pronunciaba su segundo nombre) y Armstrong. Sus soldados le llamaban "Curley" y "Jack" (una transcripción fonética de las iniciales G-A-C escritas en su mochila). Cuando se dirigió al oeste, hacia las grandes llanuras indias, le llamaron Yellow Hair (cabello amarillo) y "Son of the Morning Star" (hijo de la estrella matutina). Sus hermanos Thomas y Boston Custer murieron combatiendo junto a él en la batalla de Little Big Horn, al igual que su cuñado, James Calhoun, y su sobrino, Henry Armstrong Reed. Otros de sus hermanos fueron Nevin y Margaret Custer; tenía también algunos hermanastros mayores que él.[cita requerida] La familia Custer había emigrado a América a finales del siglo XVII desde Westfalia (Alemania). Su apellido original era "Küster". George Armstrong Custer era el tataranieto de Arnold Küster, que vivió en Kaldenkirchen (Ducado de Jülich) —actualmente el estado federado de Renania del Norte-Westfalia— antes de mudarse a Hanover (Pensilvania).[cita requerida] Faust refiere una historia ligeramente diferente: su antepasado habría sido un soldado hessiano, liberado en 1778 tras la rendición de Burgoyne. Este investigador también afirmó que Custer cambió su apellido no solo para evitar complicaciones, sino para librarse del estigma de su ascendencia hessiana, que resultaba tan ofensiva para la sensibilidad estadounidense.[2]​ El nombre de soltera de la madre de Custer era Marie Ward. Con dieciséis años se había casado con Israel Kirkpatrick, quien murió en 1835. Al año siguiente contrajo matrimonio con Henry Custer. Sus abuelos, George Ward (1724-1811) y Mary Ward (1733-1811, Grier de soltera), eran del condado de Durham, en Inglaterra. Su hijo James Grier Ward (1765-1824) había nacido en Dauphin (Pensilvania) y se casó con Catherine Rogers (1776-1829). Su hija, Marie Ward, fue la madre de Custer. Catherine Rogers era la hija de Thomas Rogers y Sarah Armstrong. Según las cartas familiares reunidas en The Custer Story, Custer recibió su nombre de George Armstrong, sacerdote, por las esperanzas de su devoto padre de que algún día su hijo se hiciese clérigo.[cita requerida] Carrera militar Custer pasó buena parte de su infancia viviendo con sus hermanastros en Monroe, Míchigan, donde inició su formación.[3]​[4]​ Antes de ingresar en la escuela militar de West Point, Custer estudió en la Escuela Normal McNeely (llamada más adelante Colegio Normal Hopedale) en Hopedale, Ohio, conocida entonces por ser el primer colegio coeducacional para profesores en el este de Ohio. Mientras se formaba allí, se sabe que Custer trabajaba transportando carbón con su compañero William Enos Emery, para ayudar a pagar su habitación y sus clases. Custer se graduó de la escuela McNeely en 1856. En 1861, un año antes de lo previsto, se graduó como el último de los 34 cadetes de su promoción,[5]​ poco antes del estallido de la Guerra de Secesión.[6]​ Normalmente, y suponiendo que hubiera llegado a graduarse, ese historial lo habría llevado a un oscuro puesto y una más que discreta carrera militar; pero tuvo la "fortuna" de que estallase la guerra y que la mayoría de los cadetes, sureños, se pasasen a la Confederación. Su estancia en la academia resultó algo tortuosa, y estuvo cerca de ser expulsado en varias ocasiones por su escasa aplicación, su indisciplina y las burlas a las que sometía a algunos de sus camaradas. La Guerra Civil McClellan y Pleasonton Custer fue nombrado teniente segundo del Ejército de los Estados Unidos y agregado al 2.º Regimiento de Caballería. Al poco de unirse a su nueva unidad, participó en la primera batalla de Bull Run, en la que el comandante Winfield Scott lo nombró mensajero de su correspondencia con el mayor general Irvin McDowell. Después de la batalla, Custer fue transferido al 5.º de Caballería, en el que sirvió durante los primeros días de la Campaña de Península en (1862). Durante la persecución de las fuerzas confederadas del general Joseph E. Johnston, el 24 de mayo de 1862, Custer convenció a un coronel de que le permitiese dirigir un ataque con cuatro compañías de infantería de Míchigan sobre el río Chickahominy, por encima de New Bridge. El ataque resultó un éxito, con más de 50 prisioneros confederados, y el mismo mayor general George B. McClellan, comandante del Ejército del Potomac, lo elogió como una «maniobra muy elegante», felicitó personalmente a Custer y lo agregó a su personal de campaña con el rango temporal de capitán. Este fue probablemente el inicio de la eterna persecución de fama de Custer. E.... Descubre los libros populares de George Custer. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de George Custer

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  • The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry sinopsis y comentarios

    The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry

    Daniel T. Davis

    “Presents Custer’s Civil War accomplishments in clear and engaging prose, while its ample images and battle maps place unfamiliar readers in the action.” The Civil War MonitorThrou...

  • Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier sinopsis y comentarios

    Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier

    Frances Fuller Victor

    With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are w...

  • American Legends: The Life of George Custer sinopsis y comentarios

    American Legends: The Life of George Custer

    Charles River Editors

    Discusses Little Bighorn in detail and explains the controversies and mysteries still surrounding Custer's Last Stand.  Includes pictures of Custer and important people, place...

  • Son of the Morning Star sinopsis y comentarios

    Son of the Morning Star

    Evan S. Connell

    Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell. Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in Ameri...

  • The Boy Generals sinopsis y comentarios

    The Boy Generals

    Adolfo Ovies

    First in a trilogya study of the strategy, tactics, and rivalry between two leaders of the Army of the Potomac’s cavalry during the American Civil War. George Armstrong Custer’s ca...

  • Blood Song sinopsis y comentarios

    Blood Song

    Terry C. Johnston

    Blood SongTerry C. JohnstonFrontier Scout Seamus Donegan is heading for Montana Territory with his new bride when war erupts in the Black Hills of Dakota. Sitting bull and Crazy ho...

  • On the Plains with Custer sinopsis y comentarios

    On the Plains with Custer

    Edwin L. Sabin & Charles H. Stephens

    This historical western was written before Custer was known as General, a time when those who knew and marched with Custer were still alive. Edwin L. Sabin tells the story of a man...

  • The Curse of Destiny sinopsis y comentarios

    The Curse of Destiny

    Romain Wilhelmsen

    George Armstrong Custer, strongwilled and strong of body, lived a life of defiance and brilliance until he met his fate at the battle of the Little Big Horn. How could this colorfu...

  • The Summer of 1876 sinopsis y comentarios

    The Summer of 1876

    Chris Wimmer

    From the creator of the "Legends of the Old West" podcast, a book exploring the overlapping narratives of the biggest legends in frontier mythology.The summer of 1876 was a key tim...

  • I Protagonisti n. 1 (iFumetti Imperdibili) sinopsis y comentarios

    I Protagonisti n. 1 (iFumetti Imperdibili)

    Rino Albertarelli

    Questa è l’epica e nello stesso tempo tragica storia del generale George Armstrong Custer, un uomo assetato di gloria: dai fasti della sua sfolgorante carriera militare fino alla d...

  • Last at West Point, Legends at War: The Lives and Legacies of George Pickett and George Custer sinopsis y comentarios

    Last at West Point, Legends at War: The Lives and Legacies of George Pickett and George Custer

    Charles River Editors

    Weaves Pickett and Custer's lives into one entertaining and educational narrative. Includes accounts of Pickett's Charge by some of the soldiers who made it. Includes excerpts of l...

  • Custer's Luck Has Run Out: George Armstrong Custer's Changing Image sinopsis y comentarios

    Custer's Luck Has Run Out: George Armstrong Custer's Changing Image

    Raymond C. Wilson

    During the Civil War, George Armstrong Custer seemed to have such a streak of good fortune, which included his avoidance of serious injury in spite of his daring command and having...

  • Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle sinopsis y comentarios

    Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier, Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer With Full Account of His Last Battle

    Frances Fuller Victor

    When the author of this book has been absorbed in the elegant narratives of Washington Irving, reading and musing over Astoria and Bonneville, in the cozy quiet of a New York study...

  • Custer at Gettysburg sinopsis y comentarios

    Custer at Gettysburg

    Phillip Thomas Tucker

    “A mosaic of thousands of tiny pieces that, seen whole, amounts to a fascinating picture of what probably was the most important moment of the Civil War.” Thomas E. Ricks, New...

  • Custer sinopsis y comentarios

    Custer

    Jeffry D. Wert

    George Armstrong Custer has been so heavily mythologized that the human being has been all but lost. Now, in the first complete biography in decades, Jeffry Wert reexamines the lif...

  • The Deadwood Trail sinopsis y comentarios

    The Deadwood Trail

    Ralph Compton

    They had beaten the harsh odds of the frontier. But for the two powerful ranchers, the most formidable trail lay ahead. There had never been a trail drive like this before...The on...

  • Bugles in the Afternoon sinopsis y comentarios

    Bugles in the Afternoon

    Ernest Haycox

    A rivalry between two U.S. cavalry officers results in Capt. Kern Shafter being courtmartialed for striking a fellow officer, Lt. Edward Garnett, with a saber. Shafter claimed to b...

  • Those Damn Horse Soldiers sinopsis y comentarios

    Those Damn Horse Soldiers

    George Walsh

    Many accounts of the Civil War battles, armies, and key figures have been written over the years, but none have looked at the bloodiest war in our nation's history through the eyes...

  • Nomad sinopsis y comentarios

    Nomad

    Brian W. Dippie

    Between 1867 and 1875, George Armstrong Custer contributed fifteen letters under the apt pseudonym Nomad to the New Yorkbased sportsman’s journal Turf, Field and Farm. Previously a...

  • An Unsung Civil War Heroine: Eliza Brown; General George A. Custer's Cook (Unsung Heroines Of History, #1) sinopsis y comentarios

    An Unsung Civil War Heroine: Eliza Brown; General George A. Custer's Cook (Unsung Heroines Of History, #1)

    Ann Polizzi & Harry Polizzi

    Thousands of books and articles have been written about the battlesboth great and smalland the major personalities of the American Civil War. The vast majority of these books and a...

  • The Better Brother sinopsis y comentarios

    The Better Brother

    Roy Bird

    Years of painstaking research have uncovered more detail on Thomas Ward Custer, the younger brother of the legendary General George Custer. Historians are now coming to understand ...

  • Meeting at Little Bighorn: The Lives and Legacies of George Custer, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse sinopsis y comentarios

    Meeting at Little Bighorn: The Lives and Legacies of George Custer, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

    Charles River Editors

    Includes pictures of Custer, Sitting Bull, and important people, places, and events in their lives. Explains the Lakota oral legends and the origins of the names Sitting Bull and C...

  • Following the Guidon ... Illustrated. [On George A. Custer and the Washita campaign of 1868-69. With a portrait.] sinopsis y comentarios

    Following the Guidon ... Illustrated. [On George A. Custer and the Washita campaign of 1868-69. With a portrait.]

    Elizabeth Bacon Custer & George A. Custer

    The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of...

  • Beyond the Bighorn: The Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer sinopsis y comentarios

    Beyond the Bighorn: The Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer

    Raymond C. Wilson

    When George Armstrong Custer's famed military career ended with his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, his widow feared that her husband was going to be blamed for the defe...

  • Custerology sinopsis y comentarios

    Custerology

    Michael A. Elliott

    On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost...

  • Valley of the Shadow sinopsis y comentarios

    Valley of the Shadow

    Ralph Peters

    Winner of the 2015 Boyd Award for Literary Excellence in Military FictionIn the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood.From a daring Confederate raid that nearly sei...

  • Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War sinopsis y comentarios

    Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War

    James H. Kidd & Paul Andrew Hutton

    Chiefly known for his exploits in the Indian Wars, most significantly for his horrific defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876, George Armstrong Custer found initial success on the ba...

  • The Ultimate George Custer Collection sinopsis y comentarios

    The Ultimate George Custer Collection

    George Custer, Elizabeth Custer, Charles River Editors & Charles H.L. Johnston

    Includes: Charles River Editors’ original biography of Custer “Boots and Saddles” or Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth B. Custer Custer’s My Life on the Plains Custer...

  • On the Border with Crook sinopsis y comentarios

    On the Border with Crook

    John Gregory Bourke

    The definitive look at one of the most famous American generals of the American Indian Wars.After serving over fifteen years with General George Crook, John Gregory Bourke, his rig...

  • The Other Custers sinopsis y comentarios

    The Other Custers

    Bill Yenne & George Armstrong Custer

    Not one, not two, but three Custer brothers died at the Little Bighornand so did their only sister's husband. Most do not realize that not one, not two, but three Custer brothers d...

  • Armstrong sinopsis y comentarios

    Armstrong

    H. W. Crocker

    "Delightfully funny alternative history." WINSTON GROOM, bestselling author of Forrest Gump and El Paso  "Droll satire, this is the West as it might have been if the Siou...

  • Decision at Tom's Brook sinopsis y comentarios

    Decision at Tom's Brook

    William J. Miller

    The Battle of Tom’s Brook, recalled one Confederate soldier, was “the greatest disaster that ever befell our cavalry during the whole war.” The fight took place during the last aut...

  • Thundering Courage: George Armstrong Custer, the Union Cavalry Boy Generals, and Justified Defiance at Gettysburg sinopsis y comentarios

    Thundering Courage: George Armstrong Custer, the Union Cavalry Boy Generals, and Justified Defiance at Gettysburg

    Terry C. Pierce

    "Promotions or a coffin!" To George Armstrong Custer, war is the Devil's own fun. And his luck"Custer Luck"peaks during the Civil War, keeping him alive against all odds. Yet, for ...

  • The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac sinopsis y comentarios

    The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac

    Adolfo Ovies

    The second installment of Al Ovies’ The Boy Generals trilogy, George Custer, Wesley Merritt and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, from the Gettysburg Retreat through the Shen...

  • Custer sinopsis y comentarios

    Custer

    Jay Monaghan

    "The best book yet written about Custer and the full significance of his career. . . . Deserves a medal of honor for extraordinary service in the great cause of making history live...

  • George Armstrong Custer and the Royal Buffalo Hunt of 1872 sinopsis y comentarios

    George Armstrong Custer and the Royal Buffalo Hunt of 1872

    Raymond C. Wilson

    Already established as an Indian fighter on the Great Plains, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's 1872 visit to Nebraska wasn't for war, but for entertainment. It was here...

  • Little Bighorn sinopsis y comentarios

    Little Bighorn

    John Hough

    Little Bighorn is the beautifully written, uniquely American story of the comingofage of eighteenyearold Allen Winslow during the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the fraught weeks...

  • Spiro George v. Gary Custer sinopsis y comentarios

    Spiro George v. Gary Custer

    Supreme Court of Alaska

    RABINOWITZ, Justice. This appeal concerns a dispute over the existence of an oral contract between Spiro George ("George") and Gary Custer ("Custer") for an option to pu...

  • George Armstrong Custer sinopsis y comentarios

    George Armstrong Custer

    Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

    Custer holds a unique place in American military history, a hero and villain in equal measure, famous for what was seen as a heroic defeat but was in fact a huge miscalculation by ...

  • Blood Brothers sinopsis y comentarios

    Blood Brothers

    Deanne Stillman

    Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction The littleknown but uniquely American story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American WestBuffalo Bill C...

  • Wildest Lives of the Frontier sinopsis y comentarios

    Wildest Lives of the Frontier

    John Richard Stephens

    By and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wr...

  • Custer: Lessons in Leadership sinopsis y comentarios

    Custer: Lessons in Leadership

    Duane Schultz

    Custer presents a fresh portrait of the Civil War commander whose actions were credited with saving the Union at crucial timesColorful, charismatic, and controversial, George Armst...

  • The Removes sinopsis y comentarios

    The Removes

    Tatjana Soli

    As the first wave of pioneers travel westward to settle the American frontier, two women discover their inner strength when their lives are irrevocably changed by the hardship of t...

  • George Armstrong Custer and the Pennypackers of Pennsylvania sinopsis y comentarios

    George Armstrong Custer and the Pennypackers of Pennsylvania

    Raymond C. Wilson

    While researching family genealogy, I was surprised to learn that my wife is related to Major General George Armstrong Custer, Major General Galusha Pennypacker, Governor Samuel W....

  • Custer sinopsis y comentarios

    Custer

    Larry McMurtry

    This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the West’s most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from “one of America’s great storytelle...

  • Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West sinopsis y comentarios

    Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West

    David Fisher & Bill O'Reilly

    The musthave companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eyeopening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we kn...