writing career of, prf.1, prf.2, 1.1, 2.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, epl.1
Custer, George Armstrong, character:
ambivalent and paradoxical nature of, prf.1–xxi, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, epl.1
authority challenged and opposed by, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
combative nature of
courage of, prf.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 11.1
cruel streak of, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
emotional temperament of
failings of, 16.1, epl.1
financial acuity lacking in, prf.1, epl.1, epl.2
gambling addiction of, 6.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 16.1
independence valued by, 1.1, 1.2, 16.1
managerial and administrative failures of, prf.1, 5.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1
moral ambiguity of, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 16.1
political ambiguity of, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
political pragmatism of, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
as prankster and practical joker, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
romantic and heroic persona forged by, prf.1, prf.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1
as self-absorbed, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1
as self-indulgent, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2
sense of guilt in, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1
Custer, George Armstrong, Civil War years, prf.1, prf.2, 2.1, 5.1, 12.1
acclaim for, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 11.1
accomplishments of
as Boy General, prf.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1
as brigadier general, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 14.1
as captain, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
command style of, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1
drawing of, 5.1, 5.2
effect on GAC of
first known kill by, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1
fluctuating military career of
at Gettysburg, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
initiative of
insubordinate intrigues of, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1
as major-general, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
military acumen of, prf.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 11.1, epl.1
military errors of, 7.1, 7.2
onset of
on Pleasonton’s staff, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 7.1
promotions of, prf.1, prf.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 14.1
reconnaissance and surveillance duties of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
as second lieutenant, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Union loyalty of, 1.1, 3.1
unique uniform crafted by, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2
wound of
see also specific battles and campaigns
Custer, George Armstrong, Indian fighter, prf.1, prf.2, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1
controversy over
failed campaign of
humane decisions of
at Little Bighorn, epl.1, epl.2
military acumen of, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, epl.1
resumption of career as, 12.1, 12.2
see also Black Hills expedition; Hancock expedition; Yellowstone expedition
Custer, George Armstrong, marriage of Libbie and, prf.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1, 16.2
as childless, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 15.1, 16.1
in Dakota, 15.1, 15.2
engagement for, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
evolving maturity of
GAC’s death in
GAC’s jealousy in, 6.1, 11.1, 13.1
honeymoon of, 6.1, 7.1
in Kansas
Libbie’s influence in
periods of separation in, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
possible infidelity in, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
proposal of, 5.1, 6.1
reconciliations of, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
sexuality in, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 15.1
social life in, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
tensions in, prf.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1, epl.2
wedding of, 6.1, 15.1
Custer, George Armstrong, post–Civil War years:
Army’s dissatisfaction with, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
arrest of, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2
Congressional hearing on Reconstruction testimony of, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
court-martial of, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 15.1, 16.1
crisis of identity in
critical attacks on, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1
in deaths of deserters, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
downfall of
financial aspirations of, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2
frontiersman persona assumed by, prf.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
harsh command and discipline style of, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 15.1, 16.1
increasing distress of
in Indian conflicts and wars, see Custer, George Armstrong, Indian fighter
Kentucky Reconstruction mission of, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
as lieutenant colonel and brevet major general, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
local costume assumed by
military law and culture flouted by, 9.1, 11.1
personal and career ambition in, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
political involvement of, 10.1, 11.1, 16.1, 16.2
social life of, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
Texas mission of, see Texas expedition
Custer, John
Custer, Margaret “Maggie,” see Calhoun, Margaret Custer “Maggie”
Custer, Maria Ward Kirkpatrick, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, epl.1
Custer, Nevin
Custer, Samuel
Custer, Tom, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
death of, epl.1, epl.2
in military, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Custer (town)
Custerology (Elliott)
“Custer’s First Stand,”
Custer’s Last Stand:
GAC defined by, prf.1–xvi, prf.2
GAC in
Custis Lee (horse), 11.1, 11.2, 14.1
Dakota, Department of
Dakota Territory, 10.1, 12.1
population of
Dakota tribe, 9.1, 15.1
Dale, N. H.
Dana, Richard Henry
Darrah, Anna “Diana,” 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 12.1, 13.1
Darwin, Charles
Davidson, John W.
Davis, Jefferson, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2
Davis, Theodore, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 15.1
Davison, Andrew J.
Davison, Eliza Brown:
captured by Confederate troops, 7.1, 7.2
as Custers’ servant, prf.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 13.1
firing of
isolation of
Libbie’s correspo
ndence and reunion with
manipulative skills of, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
and Native Americans
in North, 9.1, 13.1, epl.1
reconstructed life of
as resourceful and intelligent, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1
self-emancipation of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Deane, Charles
Declaration of Independence, prf.1, 13.1
de Janon, Patrice
Delafield, Richard
Delano, Columbus, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Delaware
as border state
Delawares
Delaware tribe, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Delmonico’s, 6.1, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 16.1
demerit system, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
Democratic Party, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, 16.8, epl.1
ascendancy of, 14.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
convention of 1864
Custer family in, 4.1, 6.1
and National Union party
North-South split in
in N.Y., 3.1, 4.1
racism in, 10.1, 16.1
Reconstruction policy of, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 14.1
“silk stocking,” 10.1, 13.1
Southern basis of, 1.1, 3.1, 8.1, 10.1
states’ rights issue in, 9.1, 16.1
dengue fever (breakbone fever)
Denver, Colo., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1
deserters:
GAC as, 8.1, 11.1
killing of, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Des Moines State Register
Detroit, Mich., 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1
Detroit Free Press
diarrhea, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1
Dibben, Frank
Dinwiddie Court House
disease:
in contraband camps
Native Americans felled by
troops felled by, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
“Disobedience of Orders—a Fatal Blunder,”
distilleries:
illicit, 14.1, 14.2
tax scandal of
Dodge, Richard
dogs, GAC’s, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
Dog Soldiers, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1
Don Juan (stolen horse), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 16.1
Donovan, James
d’Orleans, Robert and Louis Philippe
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Double Wolf
Douglas, Henry
Douglas, Stephen A., 1.1, 1.2
Douglass, Frederick, 8.1, 16.1
Downer’s Station, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 9.1, 16.1
Drew, Daniel, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Drew, Major
Dry Tortugas
Duffié, Alfred
Dull Knife (Lean Face), 12.1, 13.1
Duluth, Minn., 15.1, 15.2
Duncan, Blanton
Duncan, William B.
Dunn, William M.
du Pont, Henry Algernon
Dutton, Reverend
dysentery, 5.1, 10.1
Eads, James B.
Early, Jubal, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7
Ebbit House
economy:
modern transformation of, prf.1–xviii, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 15.2
nature of money in
panics in, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
personal relationships in
plantation-based
of West
see also stock market
Edwin (prisoner of war), 7.1, 7.2
Egan, Timothy
Elbert, Elroy “Deacon,” 1.1, 2.1, 6.1
elections:
of 1860, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2
of 1864
of 1868, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 16.1
of 1872, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
federal oversight of
midterm (1866), 10.1, 10.2
midterm (1874)
Elizabethtown, Ky., 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5
elk, 11.1, 11.2
Elk Scrapers
Elliott, Joel, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, epl.1
Elliott, Michael
Ellis County, Kans.
Emancipation Proclamation, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
encampment, at West Point, 1.1, 1.2
Enforcement Acts
engineering
England, English, 11.1, 14.1
Civil War claims of
New World colonies of
periodical publications in
epizootic (1872)
equality:
as applied to white men, 1.1, 8.1
as goal of Reconstruction, 10.1, 10.2
Erie Railway, 1.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1
Erie War (1868)
Europe, grand tour of
Europe, trade with
Eustace Diamonds, The (Trollope)
Evans, Andrew J.
evolution, theory of
Ewell, Richard S.
executions
“Extravagance and Corruption in the War Department,”
Fair Oaks, Battle of (Seven Pines), 3.1, 3.2
fairs
Falling Waters
“fancy stocks,”
Farnsworth, Elon, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Farnsworth, John
Farragut, David, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2
Far West
Fat Bear
Faust, Drew Gilpin, 2.1, 14.1, 14.2
Fenton, Reuben
Fetterman, William, 15.1, 15.2
Fetterman Massacre, 15.1, 15.2
Fifield, Fannie, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 13.1
Fifth Avenue Hotel, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, epl.1
Fish, Hamilton, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Fisher’s Hill, Battle of
Fisk, Jim, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 14.1, 16.1
Five Forks
flags, symbolic significance of, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 9.1, 9.2
flight, balloon
floods
Florida, secession of
Following the Guidon (E. B. Custer)
Foner, Eric, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1
foraging
Forney, John W., 10.1, 12.1
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 11.1, 11.2
Forster, E. M.
Forsyth, George A. “Sandy,” 12.1, 12.2, 16.1
Forsyth, James “Tony,”
Fort Abercrombie
Fort Abraham Lincoln, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7, 16.8, 16.9, epl.1
Fort Bascom
Fort Berthold
Fort Buford
Fort Cobb, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
Fort Dodge, 12.1, 12.2
Fort Donelson
Fort Ellis, Mont.
Fort Fisher, 8.1, 14.1
Fort Garland
Fort Harker, Kans., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9
Fort Hays, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Fort Henry
Fort Laramie Treaty, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Fort Larned, 11.1, 12.1
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Fort Lyon, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2
Fort McPherson, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Fort Monroe
Fort Phil Kearny
Fort Rice, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Fort Riley, Kans., 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 12.1
as African American community
fire at
Fort Sedgwick, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Fort Sill, 12.1, 12.2, 16.1
Fort Sumter
Fort Wallace, Kans., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 12.1, 12.2
Fough
t, Joseph
Fowler, William W., 13.1, 13.2
France, French, 3.1, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1
Mexico occupied by, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
in U.S. Civil War, 2.1, 5.1
Franco-Prussian War
Frankfort, Ky.
Franklin, Tenn.
Franz Joseph I, emperor of Austria
Fredericksburg, Battle of
Fredericksburg, Md., 4.1, 5.1
Freedman’s Bureau, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2
freedmen, rights denied to
free love
French, William H.
Frett, John
Frogtown
Front Royal, Va.
Fugitive Slave Act
Gaines, Dr.
Gaines, Richard
Gaine’s Mill, Battle of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Gainesville, Va.
Galaxy, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 16.2
Gall, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Galt House, 14.1, 14.2
Galveston, Tex., 10.1, 10.2
gambling, GAC’s propensity for, prf.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, epl.1, epl.2
Garland, Junius, 9.1, 9.2
“Garry Owen,” 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 16.1
Gates Ajar, The (Phelps)
Geary, John W.
Georgetown, Colo., 13.1, 13.2
Georgia, 1.1, 1.2, 14.1
secession of
Sherman’s march through
Gerard, Frederic F.
Germany, Germans, 4.1, 11.1, 13.1, 16.1
Gettysburg, Battle of, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 14.1
Gettysburg Campaign, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1
Gibbes, Wade Hampton
Gibbon, John, 3.1, epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Gibbs, Alfred, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Gibson, James, F.
Gidding, Joshua
Gilbert, Lyman D., epl.1, epl.2, epl.3
Gilded Age, The (Twain and Warner), 13.1, 15.1
Glendale, Battle of
Gliddon, George
Glory-Hunter (Van de Water)
Godey, Mrs.
Godfrey, Edward
Godkin, E. L.
gold:
GAC’s search for, 16.1, 16.2
market, 16.1, 16.2
Gold Rush, 11.1, 16.1
gold standard, 16.1, 16.2
gonorrhea, 1.1, 12.1
Good Death scenario, 2.1, 3.1
Gould, Jay, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Central Hotel
Grand Central Station
Granger, Gordon
Granger Movement (Patrons of Husbandry)
Grant, Fred, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Grant, Julia Dent, 10.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Grant, Nellie
Grant, Orvil, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Grant, Ulysses S.:
candidacy and elections of, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1
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