George Custer fought in a total of 15 battles as a part of the United States Union. Of those 15 battles George Custer and his union won 9.
Union
Lee intended to coordinate Pickett's charge with an attack on the Union rear by 8,000 Confederate cavalrymen led by General Jeb Stuart. There was only one problem--twenty-three-year-old George Armstrong Custer, a general for three days, denied Stuart the pathway to the Union rear by leading several thousand Union cavalrymen on a series of brazen charges.
There were many Union generals in the Civil War. Some of them were Ulysses S. Grant, George McClellan, Robert Anderson and George Custer. Also on the list are Nathaniel Banks, Benjamin Butler, Abner Doubleday, and George Meade.
Yes there were. Although the Union outnumbered the Confederate soldiers...
George Custer fought in a total of 15 battles as a part of the United States Union. Of those 15 battles George Custer and his union won 9.
George Custer fought in a total of 15 battles as a part of the United States Union. Of those 15 battles George Custer and his union won 9.
Union
George B. McClellan was a Union
In Virginia, Union forces under Brigadier General George A. Custer was nearly surrounded by Confederate forces. He and his troops were rescued by Union General Sheridan. This amounted to a Confederate victory, fought on June 11 to 12th in 1864.
Stuart commanded the Confederate cavalry. Custer commanded the Union cavalry.
Union, George Meade. Confederate, Robert E. Lee.
He served for the Confederate.
George A. Custer
George McClellan (Union) and Robert E. Lee (Confederate).
The commander of the Union forces was George Meade, but not all of the Union forces were Republican. Most of the Irish regiments, for example, were Democrats, as was Union cavalry George Armstrong Custer.
General Custer's cavalry had destroyed the Confederate defenses between Richmond and Appomattox. Lee had retreated to the west from Richmond hoping for his army to hide behind those defenses. They were not there. At Appomattox, General Grant gave General Custer the table on which the surrender document was signed.