Custer During the McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

From the August 12, 2013, Hampton Roads (Va.) Daily Press  "Custer finds a Confederate classmate among Williamsburg's  Civil War wounded" by Mark St. John Erickson.

Second Lt. George Armstrong Custer was not the famous person he would be as he moved with the Army of the Potomac up the Virginia Peninsula in the spring of 1862 during McClellan's Peninsular Campaign.

He was just age 22, but already had a way of putting himself in the spotlight.  He had become one of the first Union officers to ascend in a balloon and he also played a stand-out role in the May 5, 1862, Battle of Williamsburg when he guided Brigadier General  Winfield Scott Hancock's brigade across a narrow dam and into a position to threaten the rear of the Confederate Army.

--Old Secesh