1 option
Last in their class [electronic resource] : Custer, Pickett, and the goats of West Point / James S. Robbins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robbins, James S., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army--Biography.
- United States.
- United States Military Academy--Alumni and alumnae--Biography.
- United States Military Academy.
- Soldiers--United States--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Military education--United States--History--19th century.
- Military education.
- United States--History, Military--To 1900.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (521 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Today's Goat, the West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, is temporary celebrity among his classmates. But in the 19th century, he was something of a cult figure. Custer's contemporaries at the Academy believed that the same spirit of adventure that led him to carouse at local taverns motivated his dramatic cavalry attacks in the Civil War and afterwards. And the same willingness to accept punishment from Academy authorities also sent George Pickett into the teeth of the Union guns at Gettsyburg. The story James S. Robbins tells goes from the beginnings of West Point throug
- Contents:
- Nathaniel Wyche Hunter
- Benny Havens
- Ephraim Kirby Smith
- The Seminole War
- Henry Heth
- Flirtation walk
- Zeb Inge
- Churubusco
- Chapultepec
- James M. Whistler
- William Logan Crittenden
- The Battle of Blue Waters
- Solomon's Fork
- The Pig War
- George Armstrong Custer
- Absent friends
- James McQueen McIntosh
- Charles Nelson Warner
- Gettysburg
- Pickett's Charge
- Laurence Simmons Baker
- Forks
- Appomattox
- The reunion
- Charles Dempsey
- John Jordan Crittenden
- Hurrah for Custer
- Washita
- The boy president
- The Sioux Campaign
- Little Bighorn
- My every thought was ambition
- The immortals
- Whither the goat?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-479) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-71927-0
- 9786612719271
- 1-59403-384-6
- OCLC:
- 652654476
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.