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Glory Hunter reexamines Custer through court of public memory
The biography Glory Hunter by Frederic F. Van De Water argues George Armstrong Custer sparked both devotion and controversy. It covers his childhood in New Rumley, West Point trials, Civil War rise, Washita affair, Belknap scandal, and Little Bighorn defeat, with focus on his wife Elizabeth Bacon and the public’s mixed memory.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Little Big Horn
Glory
Fredericc F. van de Water
Bobbs‘Merrill Company
George Armstrong Custer
7Th
United States Cavalry
United States Army
Elizabeth Bacon
America
E. S. Godfrey
Custer
New Rumsey
Harrison County
Ohio
Mexico
Emanuel Custer
New Stumley Invincibles
Auti¢e
Autie” Custer
Custers
Montana
Nevin J
Thomas W. Custer
Boston Custer
Margaret Emma Custer
Tom Custer
Lydia
David Reed
Monroe
Mich
Lake Michigan
United States Military Academy
West Point
John A. Bingham
Academy
van de Water
Fifth Cavalry
Gettysburg
Gray
Jeb Stuart
Phil Sheridan
Sheridan
Shenandoah Valley
Appomattox Station
Lee
Stuart
Forrest
Merritt
Torbert
Seventh Cavalry
Fort Leavenworth
Hancock
Fort Riley
Washita
Black Kettle
Chivington
Colorado
Sand Creek
Maj
Joel Elliott
Godfrey
Elliott
Stanley
Black Hills
Belknap
Grant
Congress
Washington
Orville Grant
Guster
Abraham Lincoln
North Dakota
Sherman
Alfonso Taft
Terry
Tlunter
Little Big Flora
Western
Union