"My career as a cadet," George Armstrong Custer wrote, "had but little to recommend it to the study of those who came after me, unless as an example to be carefully avoided." He did not exaggerate. Custer was one of the worst cadets in the history of the U.S. Military Academy. He managed to graduate on June 24, 1861, but unlike most of the fledgling second lieutenants eager to receive their first assignments, Custer had to remain behind. He was under arrest.
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