Custer, also referred to as Custer's Legend, is a television series that ran on ABC from September 6 together with Wayne Maunder from then Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer's starring role. During the American Civil War, Custer had climbed to the rank of major general, the newest from the Union Army. He had been demoted to the rank of Captain during force discounts following the warfare, however, had been reinstated because of Lieutenant Colonel in command of the Seventh Cavalry in 1866. Many of the soldiers at the regiment were derelicts, former Confederates, or criminals. The series was cancelled before the script deadline would have attained the Little Big Horn River of southeastern Montana, at which all expired on June 25, 1876, at a Sioux Indian ambush, Robert F. Simon played with Custer's commanding officer, U.S. General Alfred H. Terry, who disapproved of Custer's long hair and far of his strategy of fighting with Indians. Slim Pickens surfaced Being a scout named California Joe Milner. Michael Dante emerged as Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. Peter Palmer played with a former Confederate soldier, Sergeant James Bustard. Grant Woods seemed as Captain Myles Keogh. Read Morgan, formerly a cavalry officer on NBC's '' The Deputy, appeared from the episode"Spirit Woman" at the part of a medicine man.