A good article on Custer.

https://www.historynet.com/wounds-from-the-washita-the-major-elliott-affair/

I wouldn’t have liked him, but as I said earlier being congenial ain’t a prerequisite for (nor necessarily a hindrance to) success in battle. His courage had been proven many times and as far as I know he always led from the front, asking nothing of his men in combat that he wouldn’t chance himself.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744