A Complete Life of General George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers; Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army; and Lieutenant-Colonel, Seventh U.S. Cavalr - Paperbackby Frederick Whittaker (Author) "To the American people, whose liberties he so gallantly defended and especially to the American cavalry, past and present, whose greatest price and brightest ornament he was, I dedicate this memoir." Frederick Whittaker, Dedication in A Complete Life of General George A. Custer A Complete Life of General George A. Custer Major General of Volunteers; Brevet Major General, US Army; and Lieutenant Colonel, Seventh US