Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Custer” in chapter 1.37 of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27.:
...5 of them were shot to death for their villainy.
About 30 horses were brought off, but no prisoners.
General Lee's approval is endorsed on the report.
Any one can see it in the war records.
Custer had ordered the houses to be burned in retaliation for some of his men having been killed in a fight with my men. The New York Times of August 25th, 1865, has a letter describing the affair.
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| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | George A. Custer | 955 | 90 | 25 | 2 | 0 user votes | |
| Custer | 705 | 0 | 117 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| George Armstrong Custer | 130 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| G. A. Custer | 109 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Mosby Indicts Custer | 37 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 user votes | ||
| Elizabeth Bacon Custer | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Gen Custer | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Geo Custer | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| J. W. Custer | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.