Everyone knows George A. Custer was last in his class at West Point.
Educated by Sitting Bull, not ever playing in Juneau. When 8th grade math gets confusing, run for a political seat, and look for an indian, with a brain. 

Before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had a vision in which he saw many soldiers, "as thick as grasshoppers," falling upside down into the Lakota camp, which his people took as a foreshadowing of a major victory in which a large number of soldiers would be killed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull