This first biography of General George A. Custer was published late
in 1876, only months after the disaster at the Battle of the Little
Big Horn. "A Complete Life" was the beginning of a legend, and
Frderick Whittaker did more than anyone else except Libby Custer to
make the flamboyant Boy General a permanent resident of the
national consciousness.
Quite aside from its contribution to the public image of Custer,
this important book placed him and his associates against a
concrete background of onrushing events. Drawing on newspaper
reports and the general's own words, Whittaker captures the
excitement of the era. Continuing the story of Custer from Volume
1, which dealt with his childhood in Ohio, cadetship at West Point,
courtship of Elizabeth Bacon, and service as a cavalryman in the
Civil War, Volume 2 takes Custer west to head up the newly created
Seventh Cavalry and fight the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and
Sioux. Whittaker gives full scope to Custer's brushes with
authority, his changeable relations with his troops, and his famous
expeditions, ending with a memorable description of his last stand
at the Little Big Horn in June 1876.
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