Custer Was Not a Moron
I'm currently reading "My Life On the Plains" by George Armstrong Custer, the Cavalryman who was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn in southern Montana in June of 1876. I picked up this copy at the bookstore at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Crow Agency, Montana awhile back. The memoir was originally published in 1873, three years before he was killed (and interestingly enough was called "My LIE on the Plains" by Major Frederick Benteen, one of Custer's battalion/squadron commanders who fought and survived at Little Bighorn). I'm currently about halfway through it and am throughly enjoying it. He writes in a very factual, (see note above!), storytelling style. Some of it is dry, while some can be downright Shakespearean. You get the feeling that he finished last in his class at West Point because he was busy chasing girls, not because he was an idiot. He talks about going out West, chasing his first buffalo (accidentally shooting hi...