Post by TheGoodMan19 on Dec 22, 2018 21:32:32 GMT
Actually, George Custer's Civil War record was impressive. I've said that he might have been the best pure cavalry combat general of the war. Remembering that Phil Sheridan made his name in combined operations, J.E.B. Stuart was a raider and Bedford Forrest basically ran his command as mounted infantry. His leadership in the Gettysburg Campaign, Sheridan's Richmond Raid, the 1864 Valley Campaign and the Appomattox Campaign were textbook. What happened at the Little Big Horn? His ego first. I've always wondered if he really thought the Sioux encampment was really that small and filled with noncombatants. If he did, his plan was sound. And Benteen and Reno did let him down. I cannot call him incompetent.