Out West with Custer and CrookThis is the life story of Colonel Verling K. Hart, a Civil War veteran of the U. S. 19th Infantry who later served with General George Armstrong Custer in the 7th U. S. Cavalry and with the 5th U. S. Cavalry under General George R. Crook. Verling served with Custer and alongside of Lieutenant Henry Moore Harrington in Company C, 7th Cavalry during the 1873 Yellowstone Campaign and in the Black Hills Expedition of 1874. Missing the fight at the Little