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.

Crook was fishing in the Big Horn Mountains on Tepee Creek while Gen. George Custer fell to the Lakota and Cheyenne at the Little Bighorn some to the north.

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

He met Margaret Custer while she was visiting the Custers in 1870, and they fell in love.

On the morning of June 25, Custer divided his 12 companies into three battalions in anticipation of the forthcoming engagement.

The county is divided into two areas of territory: East of Custer State Park and West of Custer State Park Custer.

The county is divided into eleven townships: Custer, Delaney, Lake, Mission, Pleasant Ridge, Prairie View, Ridgeland, Rolling Green, Sherman, Wakpala, and Watauga ; and four areas of unorganized territory: Central Corson, Lemmon No. 2, Northeast Corson, and West Corson.

The county is divided into thirty-six townships: Allen, Altoona, Banner, Barrett, Belle Prairie, Bonilla, Broadland, Burr Oak, Carlyle, Cavour, Clifton, Clyde, Custer, Dearborn, Fairfield, Foster, Grant, Hartland, Huron, Iowa, Kellogg, Lake Byron, Liberty, Logan, Milford, Nance, Pearl Creek, Pleasant View, Richland, Sand Creek, Theresa, Valley, Vernon, Wessington, Whiteside, Wolsey.

Custer established a reputation as an aggressive cavalry brigade commander willing to take personal risks by leading his Michigan Brigade into battle, such as the mounted charges at Hunterstown and East Cavalry Field at the Battle of Gettysburg.

In 1874, Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills and announced the discovery of gold on French Creek near present-day Custer, South Dakota.

Custer divided his forces into three battalions: one led by Major Marcus Reno, one by Captain Frederick Benteen, and one by himself.

In 1877, he was assigned to meet with Sitting Bull, who, having defeated General Custer at Little Bighorn, had moved with his people into Canada to escape American vengeance.

Pumpkin Creek enters the Tongue about above the mouth of the river, and extends for into the Custer National Forest ; the small community of Sonnette, Montana is at the headwaters.

In 1874, General George Custer led a reconnaissance mission into Sioux territory that reported gold in the Black Hills, an area held sacred by the local Indians.

It is said that George Custer rode into the Battle of Little Big Horn wearing a Stetson.

Custer maneuvered into a position in the rear of ( and between ) two Confederate divisions and seized the train depot and a large cache of supplies.

The valley is drained by two major drainages ; Grape Creek which begins in the south of Custer County near Music Pass and flows North into Deweese Reservoir from there it enters a narrow gorge before reaching the Arkansas River and Texas Creek which begins northwest of Westcliffe and flows to the northeast meeting the Arkansas River at US Highway 50.

Custer verified the rumors of gold in the Black Hills, and Bear Butte then served as an easily identifiable landmark for the rush of invading prospectors and settlers into the region.

While in Tennessee, Lieutenant General Custer transforms his tactics for cavalry into a doctrine for the new barrels ( which anticipates the German blitzkrieg doctrine of World War II in our time line ), but the War Department is not interested.

Custer is outraged at the halt, but Roosevelt explains that it would be difficult for the USA to defend the large salient into Tennessee it has captured, and at the same time, the southeastern chunk of Kentucky that still remains in Confederate hands would prove a nuisance in postwar years as Kentuckians elected to the Confederate Congress would constantly demand a new war against the USA to recapture lost territory in their state.

In 1877, Tatanka Iyotake – Sitting Bull – crossed from the USA into Canada along the Frenchman River ( which flows through Val Marie ) after his victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn.

Reno with three troops, or companies, was to attack the Indian village from the south, while Custer with five companies intended to cross the Little Bighorn river farther north and come into the village from the opposite side ; Custer ordered Captain Frederick Benteen with three companies to move below the Sioux camp to block the Indians from escaping to the South.

It flows on a general eastward direction through Custer State Park and empties into the Cheyenne River near Red Shirt, South Dakota.

Custer later chased the fleeing Confederates but near dark he ran into substantial infantry opposition from Johnson's division at Sweathouse Creek and halted for the night.

Custer was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 2nd U. S. Cavalry and immediately joined his regiment at the First Battle of Bull Run, where Army commander Winfield Scott detailed him to carry messages to Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell.

Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, termed it a " very gallant affair ", congratulated Custer personally, and brought him onto his staff as an aide-de-camp with the temporary rank of captain.

In 1864, with the Cavalry Corps under the command of Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, Custer led his " Wolverines " through the Overland Campaign, including the Battle of Trevilian Station.

When the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac was reorganized under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan in 1864, Custer took part in the various actions of the cavalry in the Overland Campaign, including the Battle of the Wilderness ( after which he ascended to division command ), the Battle of Yellow Tavern, where J. E. B.

At the request of Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, who wanted Custer for his planned winter campaign against the Cheyenne, Custer was allowed to return to duty in 1868, before his term of suspension had expired.

They were under the command of Maj. Joel H. Elliott, who had been excused from attending the court martial proceedings for Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer then underway at Fort Leavenworth.

Gen. and Brevet Maj. Gen. George Armstrong Custer captured and burned three supply trains waiting for Lee's army at the Battle of Appomattox Station.

The cavalry division of Maj. Gen. George A. Custer seized a supply train and 25 guns, effectively blocking Lee's path.

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.

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.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

During the Civil War, Custer, who achieved a brilliant record, was made brigadier general at the age of 23.

* 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.

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* 1839 – George Armstrong Custer, American general ( d. 1876 )

* 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto.

* 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.

* 1848 – Boston Custer, American general ( d. 1876 )

Preacher tells the story of Jesse Custer, a preacher in the small Texas town of Annville.

Custer was accidentally possessed by the supernatural creature named Genesis in an incident which killed his entire congregation and flattened his church.

In other words, Jesse Custer, bonded to Genesis, may have become the most powerful being in the whole of living existence.

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.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

His return to Hollywood film-making in 1967 to make the wide-screen western Custer of the West was another disappointment.

He raises and leads his own volunteer cavalry regiment ( nicknamed the Unauthorized Regiment ) in the Second Mexican War, fighting alongside George Armstrong Custer to repulse the Anglo-Canadian army led by Charles George Gordon.

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.

* 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.