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    Custer at Gettysburg: A New Look at George Armstrong Custer versus Jeb Stuart in the Battle’s Climactic Cavalry Charges
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    Custer at Gettysburg: A New Look at George Armstrong Custer versus Jeb Stuart in the Battle’s Climactic Cavalry Charges
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    Custer at Gettysburg: A New Look at George Armstrong Custer versus Jeb Stuart in the Battle’s Climactic Cavalry Charges

    By Phillip Thomas Tucker

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    George Armstrong Custer is famous for his fatal defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876, but Custer’s baptism of fire came during the Civil War. After graduating last in the West Point class of 1861, Custer served from the First Battle of Bull Run (only a month after graduation) through Appomattox, where he witnessed the surrender. But Custer’s true rise to prominence began at Gettysburg in 1863.

    On the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg, only twenty-three years old and barely two years removed from being the goat of his West Point class, Custer received promotion to brigadier general and command – his first direct field command – of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, the “Wolverines.” Now that he held general rank, Custer felt comfortable wearing the distinctive, some said gaudy, uniform that helped skyrocket him into fame and legend. However flashy he may have been in style, Custer did not disappoint his superiors, who promoted him in a search for more aggressive cavalry officers. At approximately noon on July 3, 1863, Custer and his men heard enemy cannon fire: Stuart’s signal to Lee that he was ready for action. Thus began the melee that was East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg. Much back and forth preceded Custer’s career-defining action. An hour or two into the battle, after many of his cavalrymen had been reduced to hand-to-hand infantry-style fighting, Custer ordered a charge of one of his regiments and led it into action himself, screaming one of the battle’s most famous lines: “Come on, you Wolverines!” Around three o’clock, Stuart mounted a final charge, which mowed down Union cavalry – until it ran into Custer’s Wolverines, who stood firm, with Custer wielding a sword at their head, and broke the Confederates’ last attack.

    In a book combining two popular subjects, Tucker recounts the story of Custer at Gettysburg with verve, shows how the Custer legend was born on the fields of the war’s most famous battle, and offers eye-opening new perspectives on Gettysburg’s overlooked cavalry battle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateOct 23, 2019
    ISBN9780811768924
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    Custer at Gettysburg: A New Look at George Armstrong Custer versus Jeb Stuart in the Battle’s Climactic Cavalry Charges
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    Phillip Thomas Tucker

    Phillip Thomas Tucker, PhD, has authored or edited more than forty books on various aspects of the American experience. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he has three degrees in American history. In 1993, his biography of Father John B. Bannon won the Douglas Southall Freeman Award for best book in Southern history. For more than two decades, he has been a military historian for the U.S. Air Force. He currently lives in the Washington, DC area.

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