[Mad Dawgg]

"Even the oft maligned ‘Pickett's Charge’ was a viable plan, one that went awry due to the poor aim of the artillery bombardment which failed to accomplish it's task."

One of the issues often missed in the third day of fighting at Gettysburg is that Pickett's Charge was one half of the battle plan. The other Half was Stewart's Calvary to sweep around the Union position and attack the rear thus forcing Meade into defending two fronts. However Stewart got tangled in a skirmish with some infantry and just as he was about to break out a newly promoted General led a Banzai charge of his Calvary Unit into Stewart's flank and stumped his breakthrough.

That Newly appointed General was brash and reckless and lost over 70% of his troops but his maneuver probably saved many Union lives and maybe even kept Lee from a third day victory. However at the time his name was not mentioned much as being a large contributor to the Union Victory like the praise given Chamberlain and Bufford and so on.

13 years later that brash General with the long blonde hair would achieve notoriety in a hilly area of Montana in a place called "Little Big Horn"...

[Sherman Logan]

Yup, it is possible to argue that Custer won the Battle of Gettysburg.

The weirdest part is that 3 days before he was a captain.

[af_vet_rr]

That Newly appointed General was brash and reckless and lost over 70% of his troops but his maneuver probably saved many Union lives and maybe even kept Lee from a third day victory. However at the time his name was not mentioned much as being a large contributor to the Union Victory like the praise given Chamberlain and Bufford and so on.

13 years later that brash General with the long blonde hair would achieve notoriety in a hilly area of Montana in a place called "Little Big Horn"...

I don't know if I would credit him with a lot of the reason for the Union victory, but I do agree with you that Custer doesn't get the recognition he deserves for helping to obtain victory.

A part of me wonders if he doesn't get the credit he deserves because there wasn't a lot of thought put into his attack. It was just pointing his troops at Stuart and pushing them into him. Deadly as hell, but effective.

[0.E.O]

...and lost over 70% of his troops...

Closer to 15%; 257 out of 1924.