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nikkinutshop wrote:Custer with ex-classmate, friend, and captured Confederate prisoner, Lieutenant James Barroll Washington, an aide to General Johnston, at Fair Oaks, Virginia, 1862. Interesting, for sure.
I was reading Custer did not graduate with his class at West Point because he failed. When there was a shortage of persons to lead in "the war" Custer was picked as a last choice. His career was marked with his ego. One of the tragic stories is that of the horse Don Jaun, Custer was riding. The story suggests he had taken the horse and his poor gun handling had him shooting and killing the horse while he was aiming at a bison.
Custer was an antihero in every meaning of the word.
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