Surviving Custer in WWI?

If gatling guns had been brought to Little Big Horn and Custer survived, would there be any chance that he would be an active participant of WWI? He was born in 1839 so he'd be in his mid to late seventies for WWI if he lived that long.
 

Japhy

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No way the Army would have kept him on that long. He might have had a comeback in the Phillipine American War but if he somehow gets out of that untarnished and is alive in 1917 the most he'll do is a few propaganda statements as the last surviving Civil War General.
 

Japhy

Banned
Actually their was at least 1 general who lived until 1933 Ames I believe.
That's right, I was confusing his death year with Dan Sickles.

What about the Spanish-American War?

I mean, thats how he would have presumably come back, but as with other men returned to the colors then the real issue will be the war in the Philippines where many a reputation was destroyed and where his views on Native Americans in the Indian Wars might manifest in ways that disgust the nation.
 
There's a recording by a Confederate Corporal who was supposed to be the last survivor of Longstreet's Corps on the internet. Corporal Julius Howell died in 1948 at the age of 102. He's also referred to as General Howell due to having been the Commander in Chief of the United Confederate Veterans for a time.

 
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