The Custer Story: The Life and Intimate Letters of General George A. Custer and His Wife Elizabeth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803281387)

During separations enforced by the military, Lieutenant General George A. Custer and his wife, Elizabeth, corresponded about the Civil War, the perils of frontier life, and the chain of events that would lead to his tragic death at the Little Big Horn in Montana Territory. Their letters reveal the nuances of personal and political loyalties rarely expressed by historians and novelists. And they reveal a devotion rare among wartime marriages. He was her "Autie," her "Darling Boy," and she was his "Libbie," his "Darling Sunbeam."

When Elizabeth Custer died in 1933, after fifty-seven years of widowhood, she left behind these treasured letters. Her friend and literary executor, Marguerite Merington, edited them, adding related materials and a thread of narrative reaching from Custer's birth on an Ohio farm to the final fury at the Little Big Horn.

Author: Marguerite Merington
ISBN-10: 0803281382
ISBN-13: 9780803281387
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1987
Pages: 347
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.42w x 0.90d