2006-07-17 05:42:55 · 15 answers · asked by Joe 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Coward... He was famious after Gettysburg and his fight with JEB Stuart... But look closely at the battle map... JEB was moving east into town and Custard "ran into his men". Think about it... JEB was moving TOWARDS the battle and Custer was heading AWAY from it...
What do you expect from a guy that murders women and children...
I heard that there was only one arrow stuck in him and he was killed by a bullet (from one of his own men or from himself). I won't talk about where the arrow was stuck at but any guy would cringe at the thought... supposedly it's a "bad omen" thing the Indians did at the time.
2006-07-17 05:49:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Custers' military career closely parallels former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne's coaching career.
Both built a reputation as a genius by tooling up on lesser competition, but once they took on somebody good, got their asses kicked.
Custer: Little Big Horn
Osborne: Any New Years Day bowl game in the 1980's.
While Custer was certainly no hero, I'm not sure being a bit of a hotdog qualifies him as an asshole, either.
2006-07-17 05:49:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thing I remember best about Custer was when he was asked why he had his soldiers kill Native American children. His reply was, "Nits make lice." I don't define someone like that as a hero. How does God define a hero? Haven't the foggiest, but I'll bet it has nothing to do with killing.
2016-03-16 01:02:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A little bit of both, actually. He was responsible for some truly heroic acts during the Civil War. However, his success there blew his arrogance up to fatal proportions. This led to his comeuppance at Little Big Horn, where he was ill-prepared and didn't listen to advice from others about what he was in for.
Of course, in going after the Sioux & Cheyenne, he was simply following policy handed down from the U.S. government, for better or worse...
Check out Evan S. Connell's marvelously impressionistic telling of the story in "Son of the Morning Star."
2006-07-17 05:50:01 · answer #4 · answered by Murgatroyd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a hero in the civil war pioneering the "charge" tactic. However he was obsessed with himself. He became insane when he was demoted from colonel to a lieutenant. He started calling himself a general and began wiping out Indians to gain favor with the white house. He made up lies about gold to get white people to move into Indian lands so they would get killed. Then he had "legal" justification to wipe out the Indians. He was insane.
2006-07-17 05:49:44 · answer #5 · answered by Fantasy Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Hero's are sort of stubborn so both
2006-07-17 05:48:09 · answer #6 · answered by mick987g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares? It isn't like our opinion is going to change the history that happened. He is just a historic figure now.
2006-07-17 05:45:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was only following orders. Overall, our government's treatment of the indigenous people of this land was and is appalling.
2006-07-17 05:47:56 · answer #8 · answered by Jack Nicholson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say more of an A than a hero...
2006-07-17 06:23:17 · answer #9 · answered by Nora T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure there were good men that died with him but as a son if the south I'm glad that POS got what was coming to him after a life if waging war on women and children. Executing POWs leading a mob to rape and pillage
2017-02-02 14:19:51 · answer #10 · answered by joe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋