Books in Brief: The Custer Mystery

The Custer Mystery, by Charles G. du Bois (Upton, 193 pp., $35)

‘That the argument persists until today as to whether Custer was right or wrong,” claimed the overconfident Custerphobe S. L. A. Marshall, suggested “only that people try to get their fun that way in lieu of something better to do.” Yet as the books on the “boy general” and his admittedly minor last battle flow on, his unfashionable defenders still demand a hearing. The Episcopal priest Charles