Bøger af Elizabeth B. Custer

In this portion of her trilogy of first-hand accounts of life with the General, Elizabeth Bacon Custer covers the period from 1867 to 1869. This was the time that Custer and the Seventh Cavalry engaged in extensive military activity against the Plains Indians.

This account, the second in Elizabeth Custer's trilogy of her life with the General, focuses on the period following the Civil War, when the Custers were stationed in Louisiana, Texas, and Kansas. She portrays the aftermath of the Civil War in Texas and an army officer's home life of the time.

The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. Her entreaties to be allowed to travel along set the pattern of her future life. This is the story of Elizabeth B. Custer (1842-1933), told in her own words. She was not only a housewife on the Plains; she was whatever the occasion demanded.