General George Armstrong Custer's Heroic Charge at Gettysburg

Many people are surprised to learn that in fact Gen. George Armstrong Custer was at Gettysburg, Not only that Custer may have saved the day on July 3rd prior to Pickett's Charge when he stopped a Confederate cavalry advance.

KEY MOMENTS:
00:00 Intro
00:14 Custer Ignores Orders
00:37 J.E.B. Stuart
01:13 Custer Outnumbered 3 to 1

Our Scholars

Allen C. Guelzo

Allen is the senior research scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University and director of the James Madison Program’s Initiative in Politics and Statesmanship.
Guelzo is an acclaimed scholar of American history whose writings have been recognized as among the most important contributions to scholarly and public understanding of 19th century America. His book “Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President” received the 2000 Lincoln Prize, as well as the 2000 Book Prize of the Abraham Institute of the Mid-Atlantic. His “Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America Emancipation” and his “Gettysburg: The Last Invasion” also received the Lincoln Prize in 2005 and 2013, respectively. Guelzo is also a leading authority on the life and thought of Jonathan Edwards.
A winner of the 2018 Bradley Prize, Guelzo earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an honorary Doctorate of History from Lincoln College.

Gregory Urwin
Greg is a military historian whose work spans the American War of Independence through World War 2. He holds his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, and taught at Saint Mary of the Plains College in Dodge City, Kansas, and the University of Central Arkansas before joining Temple’s History Department in 1999. Urwin has published nine books, including Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island, which received the General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and his latest, Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity, 1941-1945. Urwin is at work on a social history of the campaign that Lieutenant General Charles, Second Earl Cornwallis, conducted in Virginia in the spring and summer of 1781, and recently finished fellowships at the William L. Clements Library; Anderson House, the national headquarters of the Society of the Cincinnati; the Virginia Historical Society; and the Richard H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Urwin is a past president of the Society for Military History, a fellow in both the Company of Military Historians and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Center for the Study of America and the West, and general editor of the Campaigns and Commanders Series from University of Oklahoma Press.

Thomas Desjardin
An American historian, Desjardin has written books on the American Civil War and American Revolutionary War. He also served as director of Maine's State Park system and as Maine's Commissioner of the Department of Education. His first book, Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign, recounts the three-day Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of the men in the 20th Maine regiment. These soldiers were noted for their outstanding bravery during the campaign, which many remember as the most important battle of the Civil War. Leonne M. Hudson, reviewing the book in the Historian, felt that Desjardin's "use of anecdotal material combined with his penchant to allow the volunteers to speak for themselves gives this monograph a human quality." Hudson called the book "a splendid regimental history" that is "thoroughly researched," concluding that Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine "should take its place among the best unit histories on the Battle of Gettysburg."


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