George A. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio on December 5, 1839. He spent much of his childhood in Monroe, Michigan. This is also where he went to high school and was looked after by his stepsister. Custer always knew that wanted to be in the military, but not just as a plain and simple private. He wanted to be in command and for the ambitious “do it my way” attitude that Custer possessed, an officer’s title is probably the only way he would last in the military.

After high school, Custer wasted no time in getting into the prestigious West Point Military Academy, where he would soon be an officer and on his way into history.

Custers West Point experiences were not that exceptional. He failed to distinguish himself in any positive way a

At the start of the Civil War Custer served in the staff of General George B. McClellan, and experienced his first taste of real combat in the Battle of Bull Run. In many instances during the war he showed fearless aggression in battle and quickly gained the praise of many of his fellow officers and men. His relentless pursuit of General Lee helped to hasten Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, VA on April 9, 1865. By the time the war ended, the military had appointed him lieutenant colonel of the seventh cavalry.

After the year of suspension General Phil Sheridan called Custer back to duty to help the army fight the continuing threat of the Plains Indians. George Custer’s name was redeemed in his November 1868 attack on Black Kettles band of Indians on the banks of the Washita. This incident is easily referred to as a slaughter, which is basically what happened to the Native Americans that day.

In 1873 Custer was sent to the Northern Plains to help put down small skirmishes of Lakotas in the Yellowstone Area. This led to brief and small conflicts between the United States Military and the Lakotas. The following year, he led an expedition of about twelve hundred men to the Black Hills to investigate the rumors of gold deposits being found. But the problem with the expedition was that the U.S. government gave the Black Hills area to the Lakota Indians just six years before. This campaign help set up the next big assault on the Lakota Indians that would undeniably be one of the biggest military defeats of all time.

The last time that Gen

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