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By Callie Oettinger




![Custer receiving the flag of truce--Appomatox [sic]--1865. Credit: Library of Congress. Custer receiving the flag of truce--Appomatox [sic]--1865. Credit: Library of Congress.](http://www.commandposts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/21247v-656x454.jpg)







CALLIE OETTINGER was Command Posts’ first managing editor. Her interest in military history, policy and fiction took root when she was a kid, traveling and living the life of an Army Brat, and continues today.