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Thanks for honoring Captain Thomas Ward Custer (March 15, 1845 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor for bravery during the American Civil War. He was a younger brother of George Armstrong Custer, perishing with George A. Custer at Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory "among of the 268 men who fought to the death on the fields of Little Bighorn were two of George Armstrong Custer’s brothers as well as a nephew and a brother-in-law. And, as it turns out, despite all of his brazen heroics on the field of combat, George Armstrong isn’t even the most badass person in his nuclear family – that honor goes to his younger brother, Thomas Ward Custer. The United States Army’s first two-time Medal of Honor recipient and man so badass that his corpse at Little Bighorn was so fucked up from battle wounds that had to be identified by its tattoos – one of the Goddess Liberty, and another of the United States flag with his initials inscribed overtop of it.
In true badass fashion, Captain Thomas Ward Custer wasn’t found among the bodies of the soldiers in the company he commanded. He was found further up the hill, beside the body of his brother. It’s believed that he was the last man to survive his unit, and fought his way through the swirling melee of Sioux to die defending his family."
"It was in the final months of the war, at the Battle of Namozine Church in Virginia, that Tom Custer performed the towering act of heroic badassitude that would earn him his FIRST Medal of Honor. Lee’s forces had been defeated at Petersburg and were now on the run, and it was up to Sheridan’s cavalry to make sure they didn’t get away and regroup. The Wolverines were sent in to battle a brigade of Confederate cavalry, and the Custer brothers were right there on the forefront leaping their horses over obstacles and ripping off fire with their awesome six-shooters. Tom Custer, racing ahead of his unit, dove headlong into the enemy cavalry, swinging and hacking with this saber and firing his pistol point-blank into the enemy. Tom’s horse ended up being shot out from under him, but Tom proceeded to fight on foot, stabbing and shooting left and right as he raced towards the flag of the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry."
"The second Medal came at the Battle of Sayler’s Creek, the last engagement of the Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War, on April 6, 1865. The rebels were on the ropes, making a last desperate break to escape the Union vice, but the hard-riding Wolverines had cut off a large portion of Lee’s men and were eager to deal a final death blow to the Confederacy. Once again leading a daring cavalry charge, Thomas Ward Custer (still recovering from his wounds at Namozine Church!) raced ahead of his Company and jumped his horse over a barricade head-on into a line of Rebel infantrymen, completely ignoring the rifle fire and bayonets jamming up into his face. Shouting a rallying cry to his troops, he pulled two pistols and dual-wielded them from horseback, ripping off rounds in every direction like a goddamn berserker. When he saw a Sergeant trying to rally troops to his flag, Custer ran over and grabbed the flagpole. The Sergeant drew a pistol and shot Tom in the face, drilling him in the jaw with a fucking .44-caliber bullet at point-blank range, but a fucking bullet in the face only succeeded in making Custer even more righteously angry. Tom drilled the Sergeant with a bullet, wrenched the flag from the dying man’s hand, and then hopped his horse back over the barricade and galloped back to U.S. lines.
When he arrived, he handed the flag to his brother, then immediately turned to go back into the battle. George Armstrong was like, “Yo, bro, you fucking got shot in the face dude! You should probably get that checked out by a medic or some shit,” but Tom was like “Motherfucker I ain’t got time to bleed,” and George had to literally put him under arrest and have him restrained by three MPs in order to keep his brah from sprinting into combat with a bullet hole in his face."
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Interesting story Capt Daniel Goodman and LTC Stephen F.. Thanks for sharing. Didnt he receive the Medal of Honor?