On THIS we can absolutely agree!
His infamy as WELL-DESERVED “goat” for his last-in-the-class at West Point should have been enough to disqualify him. Unfortunately, the Union needed officers so bad, that they commissioned a bad officer! It just got worse from there!
That idiot was told in no uncertain terms what lay ahead of him that fateful morning of The Big Horn Battle but he plowed ahead anyway and his entire command was wiped out. He also managed that day to get not only himself and his men killed, but his brother, his brother-in-law and his nephew. Major Reno Benteen, who narrowly escaped with his life that day said of Custer “I’m only to proud to say I despised him’’.