Custer Saved the Nation

He is the man everybody loves to hate. George Armstrong Custer, once one of the most admired American military heroes, has become, in our time, one of the most hated figures from our past. He is now, at best, a national joke (“Custer wore arrow shirts!”) and the poster boy for American arrogance, blundering military stupidity and genocidal cruelty toward all Indians. There is little doubt that Custer’s arrogance contributed to the final battle that came to define his historical image, b