George Armstrong Custer George Armstrong Custer was born in Harrison County, Ohio on December 5, 1839. Although Custer is famous and remembered especially in folklore as a hero at the "last stand" at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, he did in fact achieve great fame during the Civil War. Custer was a great soldier and leader, but never conformed to army regulations, being condescending at best toward these regulations well as military leaders. Having gone …
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…an Indian fighter. On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his entire command of the Seventh Cavalry were massacred by combined Sioux and Cheyenne Indian forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. George's brother Thomas Ward Custer, who was serving as an aide to his brother, was also killed. Thomas Custer was the only soldier to have won two Congressional Medals of Honor during the Civil War.