Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer - Softcover

Urwin, Gregory J. W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803295561 ISBN 13: 9780803295568

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1990

Synopsis

Jay D. Smith Award from the Little Bighorn Associates

"Custer found himself in the one dilemma all soldiers most dread—he was outnumbered and completely surrounded. With disaster looming in every quarter and no chance of escape. . . ." So Gregory J. W Urwin pulls the reader into a scene describing not the Battle of the Little Big Horn but a Civil War engagement that George Armstrong Custer and his troop survived, thanks to strategy as much as naked courage.

Many books have focused on Custer's Last Stand in 1876, making legend of total defeat. Custer Victorious is the first to examine at length, with attention to primary sources, his brilliant Civil War career.

Urwin writes: "None of Custer's exploits against the Plains Indians could compare with those he performed while with the Army of the Potomac." The leader of a brigade called "the Wolverines," Custer was promoted to major general and the helm of the Third Cavalry Division when he was only twenty-four. Urwin describes the Boy General's vital contributions to Union victories from Gettysburg to Appomattox.

About this title

About the Author

Gregory J. W Urwin, an associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas, has written a new preface for this Bison Book edition.

From the Back Cover

Many books have focused on Custer's Last Stand in 1876, making legend of total defeat. Custer Victorious is the first to examine at length, with attention to primary sources, his brilliant Civil War career. Urwin describes the Boy General's vital contributions to Union victories from Gettysburg to Appomattox.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803295561
• ISBN 13: 9780803295568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308