Custer in Court

[BrokenSword]

Slashing a swath across the pages of history, charging boldly into glorious immortality - through the very gates of the halls of Valhalla (is that redundant?) - Brevet Major ‘Boy’ General George Armstrong Custer, the Hussar who laughed defiantly in the face of death, The Murat of the West or Ohio or somewhere, the Son of the Morning Star, romped his way to fame, while, never-the-less, leaving a few lawsuits in his wake:

[biggordie]

Verrrrrrry interesting, especially the parts about Nucholls getting eight bushels an acre of wheat, and Custer being in Knoxville, commanding a brigade which included the First Tennessee Mounted Infantry.

Gordie

[markland]

Jan 19, 2009 11:41:41 GMT -6 biggordie said:

Verrrrrrry interesting, especially the parts about Nucholls getting eight bushels an acre of wheat, and Custer being in Knoxville, commanding a brigade which included the First Tennessee Mounted Infantry.

Gordie

I had to look it up myself.

"UNION TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS

1st Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry

Organized at Nashville and Carthage, Tenn., December, 1863, to November, 1864. Attached to District of Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.-Duty at Carthage, Granville and on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad in District of Middle Tennessee till April, 1865. Ordered to Murfreesboro, Tenn., April 18, and duty there till June 26. Ordered to Nashville and mustered out July 22, 1865."

www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm