Courageous. Brilliant. Foolhardy. Ambitious. Insubordinate. Aloof. Flamboyant. Vainglorious. These are all terms used by contemporaries and historians to describe Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. A brilliant tactician as a Union cavalry commander during the Civil War, Custer personally led audacious headlong assaults on Confederate ranks that became known as the “Custer dash.” His personal style could also be called Custer’s dash. Despite his wife’s characterizations of his “unst


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