General Custer’s second brother, 27 year old Boston Custer, was also killed on that battlefield. Boston, born August 24, 1848, enlisted to serve under his older brother George who was commander of the 7th Cavalry. read more

Custer, however, advanced much more quickly than he had been ordered to do and neared what he thought was a large Indian village on the morning of June … He was celebrated as “the boy general” who had never lost a gun or color, and “Custer’s luck” was a proverb in the Army. Also there is evidence that Boyer suffered a wound earlier in the battle, after telling Curly to leave, saying that man (Custer) will get us all killed.

General Sheridan reported, “I know of no one whose efforts have contributed more to this happy result than those of Custer.” To Custer was given the table on which Grant wrote the terms of surrender. The original plan for defeating the Lakota called for the three forces under the command of General George Crook, John Gibbon, and Custer to trap the bulk of the Lakota and Cheyenne population between them and deal them a crushing defeat.

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. George Custer was an American commander and brevet general who fought in the American Civil War and was killed at Little Bighorn against Sitting Bull in Custer's Last Stand.

In SOMS Boyer was found wounded by two Sioux.

The most famous among these men was George Custer, whose remains were reinterred at West Point. Custer loyalist John Burkman overheard Reno's bitter comments about Custer that same night, and Seventh Cavalry Surgeon Dr. Henry Porter recalled how "during the two days we were surrounded by the Indians the inquiry among our men for Custer was loud, and that General's court-martial was freely speculated upon." Boyer, his back broken, ask the Sioux to kill him, they do.

George Armstrong Custer and his troops knew where the Indians were, and he decided to attack the Indians where he did. The owner, Richard Gaines, wrote to General Grant, who then ordered Custer to return the horse to Gaines, but he did not, instead hiding the horse and winning a race with it the next year, before the horse died suddenly.