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At a June 15 Monroe City Council meeting via Zoom, the city clerk read out a letter from George “Chip” Armstrong Custer IV, one of Custer’s descendants, against the removal of the monument ...
On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was under orders to locate a Sioux encampment in Montana Territory and wait for additional reinforcements from the U.S. Army to arrive ...
George Armstrong Custer arrived in the city by boat along the Red River in June 1865. STAFF PHOTO BY LESLIE WESTBROOK. Still, Custer wasn't the type of personality to be upstaged by anyone, ...
Mar. 29—The woman behind Gen. George Armstrong Custer spent her life trying to rehabilitate her husband's image because she deeply loved him, said historian Bob Smith, curator of the First ...
Here, the story of Custer’s defeat is told not to glorify the fallen general, but to reclaim history through Indigenous eyes, ...
In June 1867, over 700 U.S. troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer were soundly defeated by the Lakota Sioux and allied Native American tribes in the legendary Battle of the ...
That includes right here in metro Detroit, where the push to remove Monroe’s George Armstrong Custer statue continues. Drive alongside I-75 in the area and you’ll see a provocative billboard.
DALLAS — A lock of blond hair that experts believe came from Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, the flamboyant officer who perished at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, was sold at auction ...
When Rosser arrived at West Point in June 1856, he was informed he would be sharing a room with a brash young cadet from Ohio who was two months his junior —George Armstrong Custer.
When Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led his men to slaughter at the Battle of Little Bighorn, one of the bloated bodies found at the site of “the most desperate fighting” belonged to an Army ...