1839-1876. US Civil War general, the Union's
youngest brigadier general as a result of a
brilliant war record. Reduced in rank in the
regular army at the end of the Civil War, he
campaigned against the Sioux from 1874, and
was killed with a detachment of his troops by
the forces of Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the
Battle of the Little Big Horn, Montana: also
called Custer's last stand, 25 June 1876.