Last in Their Class Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point

Name: Last in Their Class Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
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ISBN: 9781594031410

ISBN-10: 159403141X

ISBN-13: 9781594031410

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Authors: James Robbins

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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 through the carnage of the Civil War to the grassy bluffs over the Little Big Horn. The Goats he profiles tell…

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List price: $26.95
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 3/9/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 500
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English

JAMES ROBBINS is a consultant and professional speaker who helps organizations increase productivity and decrease employee turnover. By weaving his own tales of adventure into thought-provoking presentations onleadership, James equips managers to lead with excellence.



Introduction


Nathaniel Wyche Hunter


Benny Havens'


Ephraim Kirby Smith


The Seminole War


Henry Heth


Flirtation Walk


Zeb Inge


Churubusco


Chapultepec


James McNeill 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


Five 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?


A Note on Sources


Endnotes


Index