The Real Custer (77 page)

Conquering Bear,
318

Cooke and Company,
334

Cooke, Jay,
323

Cooke, John E.,
98

Cooke, William W.,
264
,
266
,
276
,
373
,
377
,
385
,
388

Corbin, “Old California Joe,”
284

Courtenay, William,
350

Cowan, Robert V.,
208

Cox, Samuel S. (“Sunset”),
362

Crazy Horse,
12
,
330
,
349
,
355
,
374
,
386
,
389
,
410

Crook, George,
144
,
154
,
187–88
,
196
,
249
,
354–55
,
370–75
,
384
,
393

Crooked Run,
140

Crow King,
402

Cure, Horace C.,
232
,
236

Curley,
388
,
403

Curtis, William A.,
382

Curtis, William E.,
349

Custer, Boston (“Bos”),
304
,
370
,
373
,
378
,
388
,
401
,
413

Custer City,
371–72

Custer, Elizabeth (“Libbie”),
11
,
21
,
24
,
62
,
65
,
94–95
,
105–9
,
111
,
123
,
125–26
,
130
,
152
,
161
,
166
,
202
,
209
,
226
,
239
,
242
,
251
,
268
,
298
,
300
,
314–15
,
322
,
350
,
371
,
378
,
413
,
418

      
correspondence with George,
94
,
105
,
126
,
130
,
135
,
162
,
198
,
199
,
240
,
292
,
302–4
,
325–26
,
360
,
363
,
370
,
375

      
courtship of,
66–67

      
death of,
415

      
death of George and,
407
,
414

      
diary of,
322

      
engagement of,
95
,
105

      
first meeting with George,
5

      
at Fort Hays,
262
,
267

      
at Fort Riley,
255–57
,
259
,
267

      
George court martial and,
271
,
275–76

      
George standard and,
202
,
383

      
as military wife,
111
,
135–37
,
214
,
219
,
241
,
300–1

      
Swing around the Circle and,
249

      
in Texas,
223
,
226
,
228–31
,
233–37

      
in Washington,
123
,
125
,
163

      
wedding of,
106–9

      
as widow,
415–16

Custer, Emmanuel Henry,
1–3
,
7
,
164
,
414

Custer, George Armstrong 2nd Cavalry Brigade and,
77

      
at Aldie,
45
,
72–73
,
167

      
appearance of,
77–79

      
as “Autie,”
1–3
,
12
,
14
,
17
,
108
,
123
,
161
,
163
,
271
,
275
,
301
,
350
,
375
,
378
,
415–16

      
as “Baby Custer,”
6

      
burial of,
413–15

      
at Cedar Creek,
158–60

      
charisma of,
xv
,
1
,
12
,
89
,
112
,
301

      
childhood of,
1–8

      
counterinsurgency of,
165–77

      
court-martial of,
255–71

      
as “Curly,”
12

      
Dahlgren Affair and,
111–23
,
125

      
as Democrat,
xiv
,
7–8
,
36
,
67
,
244
,
357
361–62

      
eccentricity of,
xiii
,
78
,
230

      
as “Fanny,”
12
,
151
,
325

      
as frontier warrior,
297–309

      
and George McClellan,
163–64
,
251

      
Gettysburg and,
77–88

      
the goat,
11–25
,
41
,
59

      
Indian campaign and,
275–95

      
Last Stand of,
xi
,
335
,
379–403
,
409
,
416

      
looks of,
6
,
64
,
218

      
marital fidelity of,
xiv
,
301–2

      
postwar career of,
223–418

      
as prankster,
xv
,
12
,
14
,
17–18
,
108

      
in Shenandoah Valley,
139–52

      
as symbol,
xi–xii

      
in Texas,
228–36

      
at Trevilian Station,
131–35

      
as “trump,”
179–85

      
at Washita River,
xi
,
273
,
284

      
wedding of,
107

      
at West Point,
xv
,
8
,
11–25
,
27
,
42–43
,
47–48
,
50
,
61
,
66
,
68
,
91
,
101
,
104
,
108–9
,
241–42
,
247
,
298
,
413
,
415–16

      
“whipping order” of,
232

Custer, Mary,
2

Custer, Nevin,
2–3
,
5
,
8–9
,
198
,
370
,
408
,
410

Custer, Tom,
xiv
,
3
198–99
,
264
,
269
,
287
,
303–4
,
329–30
,
334
,
369
,
388
,
401–2
,
406

Custer's Creek,
328

Custer's Last Fight
,
417

Custer's Last Rally
,
417

“Custer's luck,”
xii
,
20
,
48
,
68
,
125
,
405
,
411

Custis Lee,
230
,
300

D

Dade, Francis L.,
408

Dahlgren Affair,
111–23
,
125

Dahlgren, John A,
111–23

Dahlgren, Ulric,
114–15
,
122

Dale, N. H.,
227–28

Dana, Charles Henry,
146

Danville Railroad,
187
,
196

Darrah, Anna,
107

Davies, H. E.,
92
,
97
,
100–2

Davis Creek,
380

Davis, Franklin “Grimes,”
70–71

Davis, Jefferson,
9
,
13
,
38
,
115
,
122
,
195
,
214
,
225

Davis, Theodore R.,
260
,
264
,
279
,
281

De Gresse, William J.,
291

de Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez,
201
,
413

De Smet, Pierre Jean,
338

December 1875 ultimatum,
350
,
371

Delaware tribe,
306

Democratic Peace Platform,
162–63

Detroit Audubon Club,
288

Detroit Free Press
,
248

Devin, Thomas C.,
129
,
132
,
140–41
,
149
,
187
,
205

Devin's Brigade,
140

Dinwiddie Battlefield,
190
,
202

Dinwiddie Courthouse,
188

Disoway, Israel C.,
173–74

“Dixie,”
28
,
39

Dodge, Grenville M.,
259
,
281

Dodge, Richard Irving,
313–14
,
345

Don Juan,
218

d'Orléans, François,
55

Douglas, Stephen,
32

Douglass, Henry,
17

Douty, Calvin,
73

Drake, George,
371

Drake, Jeremiah,
169

Dred Scott v. Sanford
,
30

Dry Tortugas,
228

Dubuque Herald
,
252
,
328

Duffie, Alfred N.,
140

Dull Knife,
294

DuPont, Henry,
24
,
160

Durfey, Margaret,
62–63

E

Early, Jubal Anderson,
139–40
,
151
,
182–85

Edgerly, Winfield Scott,
373
,
377
,
383
,
388

Egan, James,
348

Eliza,
133–34
,
223
,
256
,
262
,
300

Elliott, Sam,
xiii

Emory, William H.,
154–55

Emperor Maximilian I,
241

Evans, A. W.,
292

Ewell, Richard S.,
70
,
199–200

F

Far West
(steamer),
371
,
376
,
406

Farley, Henry S.,
35

Farnsworth, Elon,
68
,
74
,
79–80
,
87
,
92

Farragut, David G.,
249–50

Fast Bear,
318

Ferguson, Samuel W.,
81

Ferry, Noah,
80
,
83

Fetterman, William,
258–59
,
266

Fire Heart,
347

Fisk, Andrew Jackson,
408

Five Forks,
188
,
190
,
193
,
195
,
197–98
,
217