An aide to Custer : the Civil War letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger / edited by Sandy Barnard ; compiled by Thomas Singelyn.
In August 1862, nineteen-year-old Edward G. Granger joined the 5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment as a second lieutenant. On August 20, 1863, the newly-promoted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer appointed Granger as one of his aides, a position Granger would hold until his death in August 1864. Many of...
Uniform Title: | MSU Archives & Historical Collections Reading Room Books.
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Language: | English |
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Norman :
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2018.
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UA: In dust jacket. |
Physical Description: | xxi, 295 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- A first letter
- Camp life and picket duty
- A summer and fall of campaigning
- Camp life, winter 1863-1864
- Campaigning in the spring and summer of 1864
- Epilogue: death on a hot August day.