True— and the Indians wiped out his command out of his totally foolish operational command in ... “Indian country”.
He wanted to be President, imagine— just like the idiot Biden. His body was scalped and mutilated, and the Lakota women punctured his ears into his brain “so he would listen and hear better when the Great Spirit speaks of his harming of the Lakota”. Good movie on this “Son of the Morning Star”. Also great is the pure science analysis of the movements of the command, using shell casings still on the battlefield and GPS locators. Fascinating- they violated all kinds of trained tactics, and were slaughtered (and killed themselves as well, apparently).
So, there’s that. Southerners know Custer for trying to get General Longstreet to surrender the remnants of the Army of N. Virginia to Custer (a Colonel) in the last days before the Appomattox surrender. Custer rode on to confront Longstreet and demanded surrender from him. Longstreet stood in his saddle, (said to have sworn at Custer, saying “The Generals will meet and arrange the terms,not a BOY like you of junior rank!)with a raised voice at Custer and then literally chased him off.
Custer had it coming and a great Native cavalry delivered it. He would have been a terrible President.
Custer did have a breveted general’s rank at the age of 23 in 1863, fought at Gettysburg and received the first Confederate flag of truce at Appomattox and was there for the surrender. He supposedly took off with the table the surrender was signed on. It’s ironic that he is remembered for his final fatal failure, but the same traits, going right in at the enemy, are what made his career during the Civil War.
Why such animus against Custer?
LOL
“At the Little Bighorn, Colonel Custer was one of just two soldiers on the field not scalped.”
https://www.historynet.com/1876-george-custer-not-scalped-yellow-hair-first-scalp-custer.htm