During my lifetime, Custer has gone from dashing, though arrogant hero to a kind of infamy normally associated with residents of the nether regions. In terms of his "Last Stand," I have never felt sorry for Custer, who was "hoist by his own petard." The ones I felt sorry for were the poor, dumb enlisted bastards that had to follow him and paid with their lives - Custer's own "arrow fodder."