Custer's private orderly in Texas : Samuel I. Grey / introduction by John M. Carroll. [ca. 1987]

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Custer's private orderly in Texas : Samuel I. Grey / introduction by John M. Carroll. [ca. 1987]

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Excerpts from the narrative of Samuel I. Grey which deal with George Armstrong Custer.

xi, 68 leaves ; 28 cm.

University of California, Davis, Shields Library

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University of California, Davis, Shields Library

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Carroll, John M. (John Melvin), 1928-1990

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Historian specializing in military history of the American West and Custeriana. Edited the Hinman interviews for book publication. From the description of Galley proof for the Eleanor H. Hinman interviews on the life and death of Crazy Horse, 1976. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13912594 ...

Grey, Samuel I., -1936

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Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

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Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatines whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania. According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy. Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer (1806...