In his spirited retelling of George Custer’s dramatic Civil War career, Thom Hatch pulls out all the stops in favor of the hero of his tale in Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer.
From West Point graduate to aide-de-camp for George McClellan to boy brigadier and Gettysburg hero all the way to division commander under Phil Sheridan, Custer experienced a success in the Civil War that has sometimes been obscured by what happened at Little Big Horn 11 years after A

December 2013
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- Lynch Mob Law
- Rough Drafts 12/13
- Durango, Colorado
- The Two-Reel Texas Rascal
- Courage Under Fire
- Home Brewed Gun Show
- Geronimo!
- Tracks that Speak
- The Frontier Christmas Trail
- Rat Pack Troopers
- The Flawed Gentleman Bandit
- Getting Shotgun Loaded
- The credits for Tombstone list a Wyatt Earp III in the cast. What is his relationship to the original Wyatt?
- Was the Lost Dutchman Mine real?
- December 2013 Events
- The Shirt of a Condemned Man
- A Literary Life of Adventure
- “Free as the Winds,” Red Cloud Soared Above the Rest
- A Timeless Tale of an American Family
- Christopher Price
- A Cement Pudding
- The Three Godfathers
- A Rope for a Rat
- What are tintypes?
- How were guns cleaned in the Old West?
- Does The Searchers movie have any basis in fact?
- Where is Cowboy Ground Zero?
- Jeffrey Richardson’s favorite reads
- Hero’s Triumph and Tragedy