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.
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.
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