
CUSTER VICTORIOUS
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The Blue & Grey Press, Edison, NJ, 1983, 1st pr. ISBN 0-7858-0748-9. Hard cover, 308 pages including Notes, Postscript, Appendix, Bibliography, and Index. Very good; spine creased, binding sound. Very good dust jacket with price intact, showing light rubs. Gift inscription on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked. ‘… he demonstrated a conspicuous daredevil brand of courage and an uncanny, intuitive grasp of cavalry tactics that brought him nationwide recognition and a meteoric promotion during his Civil War career. … young Custer inflicted the first clear-cut defeat ever dealt by Yankee horsemen to the legendary J. E. B. Stuart and his near-invincible Confederate cavalry four days later on a field three miles east of Gettysburg. After that, victories came to the hard-riding, hard-hitting blond cavalier in an almost uninterrupted string.’ (from front flap)