‘Custer Luck’ was the name given to George A. Custer’s uncanny streak of good fortune early in his career. Army general and military hero Winfield Scott played a role in one such episode.

Col. Wesley Merritt and troops from the 5th Cavalry Regiment arrive at Mill Creek in Colorado on Oct. 5, 1879, and rescue survivors of an earlier attack by Ute warriors.

Sheet music for ‘Camp Custer March’ is published on Oct. 4, 1909.

George Custer and his wife had as many as 80 dogs with them during their marriage. One military orderly even held the job of dog keeper for the couple.

Lt. General Winfield Scott probably wouldn’t cut in in today’s U.S. Army. Learn more about this portly war hero of yore.

George A. Custer may have picked up a case of typhoid fever while serving under Union Gen. Philip Kearny in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1861.

George A. Custer is reinstated to command of the 7th Cavalry on Sept. 30, 1868, following a year’s suspension after a court-martial conviction for leaving his troops without authorization.

Horace Greeley gets credit for saying, “Go West, young man!” in the 1860s. But, Indiana newspaper editor John B.L. Soule is believed to have first written that line on Sept. 29, 1851.

A group of Army scouts and troopers hang on for nine days for help to arrive after the Battle of Beecher Island in present-day Colorado. Cheyenne war leader Roman Nose is killed in the fighting.

Lt. Gen. Philip Sheridan tells George Custer in a Sept. 24, 1868 telegraph the Army would begin pursuing Indian tribes during the winter months of 1868-69.

In a letter written to his brother, U.S. Sen. John Sherman, Lt. Gen. William T. Sherman advocates either extermination or impoverishment for Native tribes.

In 2-1/2 years, Lewis & Clark traveled 6,000 miles and made contact with more than 70 Indian tribes on their journey to explore and map the great Northwest of the United States.

George A. Custer was no friend of the Cleveland Dealer newspaper, which, in September 1866, mocked him for continuing to wear his Brevet Major-General uniform from the Civil War. Post-war, Custer was relegated to his regular Army rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

Happy Birthday to actor Gary Cole, who portrayed George Custer in the 1991 ABC movie, ‘Son of the Morning Star.’

Confederate troops led by Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early could not withstand a blistering attack by George Custer and the Union cavalry at Third Battle of Winchester on Sept. 19, 1864.

U.S. Secretary of State John C. Calhoun green-lit the Yellowstone Expedition of 1819 with the goal of establishing a fort at the mouth of the Yellowstone River in present-day North Dakota. They got as far as Nebraska before things fell apart.

Union First Lieutenant George A. Custer met President Abraham Lincoln following the bloody Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862.

Just when you thought the cast was set for our Custer movie, new additions are announced. Be the first on your block to know!

Who’s really buried beneath the Custer monument at West Point? One forensic anthropologist thinks the Army may have buried the wrong bones.

George A. Custer accompanied President Andrew Johnson on a speaking tour in September 1866 and bore witness to a riot during a stop in Indianapolis.