In early 2007, Lieutenant Colonel Scottie Custer of the 82nd Airborne Division saw that the best way to limit insurgent activity in Khost was to forward deploy some 187 paratroopers under his command to Force Protection Facilities in Khost's various district centers next to the sub-governors mansions so they could both protect them and maintain a visible presence in population centers as well as help mentor Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police units operating across Khost.

However, Custer inspired his men by staying mounted as he led them forward, waving his hat in full view of the enemy.

The persistent claim put forward for him by others, but as though it came direct from him, brought upon him from some of the Sioux the accusation, ' Curly is a liar ; nobody with Custer escaped us.

It is still hotly debated why Reno and Benteen did not press forward and attempt to join forces with Custer.

To add on, Custer moved forward under the untrue information given by agents that suggested that the region had just over 800 troops, roughly the same size as the 7th Cavalry Size.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

Also in 1965, he guest starred on an episode of " I Dream of Jeannie " ( Whatever Became Of Baby Custer?

* 1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.

Custer, driven by a strong sense of right and wrong, goes on a journey across the United States attempting to ( literally ) find God, who abandoned Heaven the moment Genesis was born.

During the course of their journeys, the three encounter enemies and obstacles both sacred and profane, including: the Saint of Killers, an invincible, quick-drawing, perfect-aiming, come-lately Angel of Death answering only to " He who sits on the throne "; a disfigured suicide attempt survivor turned rock-star named Arseface ; a serial-killer called the ' Reaver-Cleaver '; The Grail, a secret organization controlling the governments of the world and protecting the bloodline of Jesus ; Herr Starr, ostensible Allfather of the Grail, a megalomaniac with a penchant for prostitutes, who wishes to use Custer for his own ends ; several fallen angels ; and Jesse's own redneck ' family ' — particularly his nasty Cajun grandmother, her mighty bodyguard Jody, and the ' animal-loving ' T. C.

* August 4 – American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the Seventh Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux, near the Tongue River ( only 1 man on each side is killed ).

* November 27 – American Indian Wars – Battle of Washita River: In the early morning, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on a band of Cheyenne living on reservation land with Chief Black Kettle, killing 103 Cheyenne.

The attacks on settlers and miners were met by military force conducted by army commanders such as Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

Their combined forces killed 258 soldiers, wiping out the entire Custer battalion, and inflicting more than 50 % casualties on the regiment.

Unknown to Custer, the group of Native Americans seen on his trail were actually leaving the encampment on the Big Horn and did not alert the village.

Four years later, on November 27, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and his troops attacked Black Kettle's band at the Battle of Washita River.

In 1967 Pickens had a recurring role as the scout California Joe Milner on the ABC military western Custer, starring Wayne Maunder in the title role.

In the fall of 1866, Seward joined Johnson, as well as Ulysses S. Grant and the General George Armstrong Custer, along with several other administration figures, on the president's ill-fated " Swing Around the Circle " campaign trip.

The town of Cheyenne in Roger Mills County is the location of the Battle of Washita River ( also called Battle of the Washita ; Washita Battlefield ), where George Armstrong Custer ’ s 7th U. S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle ’ s Cheyenne village on the Washita River on November 26, 1868.

Custer County was formed on April 19, 1892 as an original county from Cheyenne land, and called G County.

Age pyramid for Custer County, Oklahoma, based on census 2000 data.

The Ponderosa Pine Scenic Byway on State Highway 21 climbs northeast from Boise to Idaho City and Lowman, and ends at Stanley in Custer County, at the junction with

Custer County was created by the Colorado legislature on March 9, 1877, out of the southern half of Fremont County.

) At the conclusion of the Appomattox Campaign, in which he and his troops played a decisive role, Custer was on hand at General Robert E. Lee's surrender.

During the Civil War, Custer was frequently termed " The Boy General " in the press, reflecting his promotion to brigadier general at the age of 23 ; during his years on the Plains in the Indian Wars, his troopers often referred to him with grudging admiration as " Iron Butt " and " Hard Ass " for his physical stamina in the saddle and his strict discipline, as well as with the more derisive " Ringlets " for his vanity about his appearance in general and his long, curling blond hair in particular.

A horse, Don Juan, that belonged to the General George Armstrong Custer is buried in Tecumseh, the horse having been sent to a friend living there after the General's death.

At Hunterstown, in an ill-considered charge ordered by Kilpatrick against the brigade of Wade Hampton, Custer fell from his wounded horse directly before the enemy and became the target of numerous enemy rifles.

Storytellers said that according to their oral tradition, Buffalo Calf Road Woman, a Northern Cheyenne heroine of the Battle of the Rosebud, struck the final blow against Custer, which knocked him off his horse before he died.

Sheridan then asked George Armstrong Custer to carry it away on his horse.

Two days later, on July 2, the brigade participated in the Battle of Hunterstown, where one of the Wolverines, Norville Churchill, rescued a fallen Custer, who was pinned in the road under his slain horse.

Had his horse not given out on the bluffs above the river as the regiment reached the battlefield, Thompson would have died with Custer.

A wall plaque on a modern building and a star surrounded by four horseshoes installed in the sidewalk mark the location of Custer's headquarters and the " Custer Maple ," a prominent tree used by the boy general to tether his horse.

Among Union forces charging Confederate barricades, Custer had his horse leap a barricade while coming under fire.

" Custer then turned his horse to rejoin the battle, but Armstrong ( who had only seconds before seen another of his aides be shot in the face and fall from his horse dead ) ordered Custer to report to the surgeon.

Watson was able to get his horse up again, but the two men were unable to keep up with their company, which was in a battalion under the command of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.

During the fight, Custer fell under his wounded horse as Confederates approached and was saved by his orderly.

Gen. Custer's younger brother, Captain Tom Custer, spurred his horse over a hastily thrown up barricade of the still deploying Confederate cavalry and captured 3 Confederate officers and 11 enlisted men, as well as the battle flag of the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry.

In 2005 Northern Cheyenne storytellers broke more than 100 years of silence about the battle, and they credited Buffalo Calf Road Woman with striking the blow that knocked General George Armstrong Custer off his horse before he died.

In a public recounting of Cheyenne oral history of the battle, tribal storytellers said that Buffalo Calf Road Woman had struck the blow that knocked Custer off his horse before he died in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

* June 25 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5, 000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

Prairie County was created by the Montana Legislature in 1915 out of parts of Custer, Dawson, and Fallon Counties.

Fallon County was created in 1913 after being carved out of Custer County.

Ordinarily, Custer's low class rank would be a ticket to an obscure posting, but Custer had the fortune to graduate just as the Civil War broke out.

They desired to be mustered out of Federal service rather than continue campaigning, resented imposition of discipline ( particularly from an Eastern Theater general ), and considered Custer nothing more than a vain dandy.

Upon its mustering out, several members planned to ambush Custer, but he was warned the night before and the attempt thwarted.

On February 1, 1866, Custer was mustered out of the volunteer service and returned to his permanent rank of captain in the 5th Cavalry.

The Confederate troops regrouped and chased Custer out of Albemarle.

In 1874 George Armstrong Custer led the U. S. Army Black Hills Expedition, which set out on July 2 from Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota.

However, subsequent enemy movements left the Michigan Brigade nearly surrounded, and Custer had to fight his way out of the encirclement.

It rises out of Deerfield Reservoir, in the Black Hills in Pennington County approximately 15 mi ( 24 km ) NNW of Custer.

Expecting a repeat of the Battle of Washita River, Custer ignored contrary intelligence or did not seek it out.

Fifty years after what was then known as Custer's Last Stand, Custer's widow Elizabeth Bacon Custer spoke out against a memorial to Reno at the site.

They did not at once advance to find out, which would later create a controversy regarding an alleged abandonment of Custer.

Custer brought up artillery to blast the North Carolina cavalrymen with canister and had the 1st Vermont Volunteer Cavalry Regiment ford the creek out of sight of the Confederates in order to outflank them.

He had mistakenly thought the survivors of Custer's three southeastern companies fled northwest to Custer because they ran out of ammunition.

During the subsequent fighting at the Battle of Little Big Horn on Custer Hill on June 25, 1876, Rain-in-the-Face is alleged to have cut the heart out of Thomas Custer, a feat that was popularized by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in " The Revenge of Rain in the Face ".

The senior captain among the five companies wiped out with Custer that day, and commanding one of two squadrons within the Custer detachment, Keogh died in a " last stand " of his own, surrounded by the men of Company I.