http://www.historynet.com/george-armstrong-custer-between-myth-and-reality.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=george-armstrong-custer-between-myth-and-reality From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:15:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.historynet.com/george-armstrong-custer-between-myth-and-reality.htm#comment-786730 Retired USAF Master Sergeant Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:57:08 +0000 #comment-786730 Thanks for this article. I had recently watched a special on the History Channel on Gettysburg. Custer's day 3 clash with General Stuart's vastly superior calvary struck me as the fulcrum of American History, as surely as Valley Forge. Had Custer not succeeded though tremendously outnumbered, Stuart would have infiltrated the rear at the Union center. As Picket's Confederate forces over-ran the Union line, there would have been no way to rally a Union counter. The Union line would have been split and Confederate forces would have filed in and rolled up both flanks. Dereft of the benefit of the high ground and fortified fighting positions, the Confederates would have succeeded. Instead, this boy-General stepped into the fray, his self-less actions quickly won over veteran soldiers who had mocked him for his fluffery and youth. Such REAL heroism, yet Custer is recalled as an ambitious, impestuous joke. Thank God for making him just as he was. If not, our world would look nothing like it now does. The fact that this is the second post in 2 years is a discrace. The truth of this story should be taught to ALL Amercians. Thanks for taking the time to write your essay. Thanks for this article. I had recently watched a special on the History Channel on Gettysburg. Custer's day 3 clash with General Stuart's vastly superior calvary struck me as the fulcrum of American History, as surely as Valley Forge. Had Custer not succeeded though tremendously outnumbered, Stuart would have infiltrated the rear at the Union center. As Picket's Confederate forces over-ran the Union line, there would have been no way to rally a Union counter. The Union line would have been split and Confederate forces would have filed in and rolled up both flanks. Dereft of the benefit of the high ground and fortified fighting positions, the Confederates would have succeeded. Instead, this boy-General stepped into the fray, his self-less actions quickly won over veteran soldiers who had mocked him for his fluffery and youth.
Such REAL heroism, yet Custer is recalled as an ambitious, impestuous joke. Thank God for making him just as he was. If not, our world would look nothing like it now does.
The fact that this is the second post in 2 years is a discrace. The truth of this story should be taught to ALL Amercians.
Thanks for taking the time to write your essay.

]]> http://www.historynet.com/george-armstrong-custer-between-myth-and-reality.htm#comment-288885 betty Barone Sun, 30 May 2010 19:56:44 +0000 #comment-288885 that whole movie was a total farcd. You don't believe movies are real life, do you? that whole movie was a total farcd. You don't believe movies are
real life, do you?

]]> http://www.historynet.com/george-armstrong-custer-between-myth-and-reality.htm#comment-137218 dave Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:52:11 +0000 #comment-137218 Being fortunate enough to live within a 1/2 hr. drive of the Custer musem in Monroe, Michigan; (a must for anyone interested in Custer); I enjoyed the article. But I do have one question that I have not been able to confirm; did or did not the michigan brigade "mutiney" against Custer during the war; i.e. refused to charge a conferate position that had infantry & artillery backing? This would put lie to the Errol Flynn movie They died with thier boots on; i.e. the scene in which "Custer" recieves a watch inscribed with "from your faithful wolverines";(and if the watch incident is true where's the watch today? ). Being fortunate enough to live within a 1/2 hr. drive of the Custer musem in Monroe, Michigan; (a must for anyone interested in Custer); I enjoyed the article. But I do have one question that I have not been able to confirm; did or did not the michigan brigade "mutiney" against Custer during the war; i.e. refused to charge a conferate position that had infantry & artillery backing? This would put lie to the Errol Flynn movie They died with thier boots on; i.e. the scene in which "Custer" recieves a watch inscribed with "from your faithful wolverines";(and if the watch incident is true where's the watch today? ).

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