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According to Wallace , on March 5 , 1884 , a retiring board “ pronounced the General , who had won the distinction of being one of the nation ’ s two greatest Indian fighters , permanently unfit for further military duty …” Reportedly , Mackenzie calmly replied , “ I think I am not insane . I think that I have served as faithfully as anybody in the army . I would rather die than go on the retired list . The army is all I have got to care for . I don ’ t wish to stay here .”
Doctors declared Mackenzie insane and the Army officially retired him March 24 , 1884 . The Army indicated that the general ’ s condition “ was incurred from wounds received and exposure in the line of duty .”
In June , he returned to live with his sister Harriett in his boyhood home in Morristown , NJ . A year later brother and sister and a cousin moved to New Brighton , Staten Island , where Mackenzie , 48 , died on Jan . 19 , 1889 .
Following Custer ’ s death , his wife “ Libbie ” dedicated herself to immortalizing her husband . Per www . history . com : “ Throughout his career , Custer exhibited a reckless temperament that kept him in almost constant trouble with superior officers . Yet his courage has rarely been questioned . In life he was a flamboyant man who attracted ardent admirers and severe critics . In death it has been the same . His wife , Elizabeth , through her publications and lectures during the half-century she survived him , did much to create the image of a beau sabreur that still persists . Probably more words , pro and con , have been written about George Armstrong Custer than any of his military contemporaries of comparable rank .” Custer himself wrote various books about himself : My Life on the Plains , The Custer Story , Custer in the Civil War . Buffalo Bill Cody , the greatest of the post-frontier showmen , re-enacted Custer ’ s Last Stand in his