Custer Collection Blog
The Custer Family and the Civil War
Which Custer brother? Civil War soldier William Kimball, a member of the First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, relates an incident involving a derailed train attacked by rebels on May 18, 1864, near Huntsville, Alabama. Kimball states, “The engineer was a brother of General Custer and was wounded in the hand,” but never names a brother. The Civil War and the Custer Family As a student at West Point, George Custer graduated and immediately entered the army in 1861. He made a name for himself in many Civil War battles including...
New to the Custer Collection – November 2015
The Lawrence A. Frost Collection of Custeriana is a multimedia collection that includes over 5000 books, videos, numerous images, journals, newspaper articles, sound recordings and art work. It focuses on the life of General George A. Custer which includes his academic work at West Point, his heroic participation in the Civil War and his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. New Biographies Biographers are still trying to capture into words the personality of the man known as George Armstrong Custer in an attempt to understand...
A Custer Reader
The Lawrence A. Frost Collection contains over 5000 books relating to General George A. Custer and many other pieces of Custeriana. For those just starting to study Custer deciding where to start can be daunting. Fortunately Custer scholars have provided bibliographies that can help. Reading guides to Custer literature have been published as early as the 1930s. One of the first to be printed was included in the book The Custer Tragedy by Fred Dustin. It was published in 1939 and includes a bibliography of 282 books, maps and...
New to the Custer Collection – April 2015
The Lawrence A. Frost Collection of Custeriana is a multimedia collection that includes over 5000 books, videos, numerous images, journals, newspaper articles, sound recordings and art work. It focuses on the life of General George A. Custer which includes his academic work at West Point, his heroic participation in the Civil War and his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The interest in the Battle of the Little Bighorn has never slackened. The debate over what happened on that fateful day continues. Here are a few new...
All this from a Pair of Boots!
The Monroe County Library System’s Lawrence A. Frost Collection of Custeriana started with a podiatrist and a pair of boots. Dr. Lawrence A. Frost wore many hats in his lifetime. He was a noted podiatrist, served as Mayor of Monroe, and sat as President of the Monroe County Historical Society but his passion was studying and collecting Custeriana. It started innocently, his neighbor, Colonel Brice Custer (Grandnephew of General George Custer) gave him a pair of the General’s boots which sported a hole from a gunshot. He knew...
The General George A. Custer Collection
