Looking for a good Custer biography.

[Smoke]

So, I'm reading through Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen Ambrose and it does appear to be what I was looking for because it's filling in a lot of missing details on Custer's West Point years and his Civil War years. 

FWIW Stephen Ambrose cites Jay Monaghan's

Custer:The Life of General George Armstrong Custer

As THE definitive biography. So I may have to check that out when I'm done reading his book.

 

[Imissedagain]

The Army I was in had a solution for officers who didn't care how many casualties their outfit took. Does the word 'frag' ring a bell?

Patton said something along the lines of: I don't want you men to die for your country; I want to make the other guys die for their country.

Battle hardened troops in the jungle..... and dumb arrogant butter bars... what could go wrong?

 

[Absalom]

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FWIW Stephen Ambrose cites Jay Monaghan's

Custer:The Life of General George Armstrong Custer

As THE definitive biography. So I may have to check that out when I'm done reading his book.

Custer's career before the LBH is well-documented and in my memory, which has to go a few decades back in this case, Monaghan does a good job. But just like Ambrose, whose book is from 1975, anything about the battle itself reflects the notions of the pre-evidence era.