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Elizabeth Bacon Custer (née Bacon; April 8, 1842 – April 4, 1933) was an American author and public speaker who was the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, United States Army. She spent most of their twelve-year marriage in relative proximity to him despite his numerous military campaigns in the American Civil ...
21 de nov. de 2019 · Following the decimation of the 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn in June 1876, Elizabeth “Libbie” Bacon Custer devoted the remaining 57 years of her life to carefully constructing the legend of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer.
31 de ago. de 2022 · On April 4, 1933, Elizabeth Bacon Custer suffered a heart attack and died in New York City. Buried beside her husband at West Point, Libbie was finally reunited with her Autie after nearly 57 years of gallantly defending his reputation and image.
13 de mar. de 2020 · Elizabeth Custer—The Great Woman Behind the Man. Updated: Aug 18, 2020. For nearly 160 years, Elizabeth Bacon Custer has been the most famous military wife in American history. During her lifetime, she was widely admired for her grit, humor, intelligence, and vivacity and is still remembered today, but perhaps more as George ...
5 de mar. de 2021 · Internet Archive. Language. English. xii, 339 pages 24 cm. The personal letters of General Custer and his wife Elizabeth Bacon, are well worth reading for their picture of frontier army life and for tracing Custer's career on the western plains. Both Custers were prolific and prolix letter-writers.
1 de dez. de 1994 · Elizabeth Bacon Custer, the only surviving child of Judge Daniel and Eleanor Sophia (Page) Bacon, was born at Monroe, Michigan, on April 8, 1842. At twenty Libbie, as she was called, graduated as valedictorian from the Young Ladies' Seminary and Collegiate Institute in Monroe. Shortly after, she met Capt. George Armstrong Custer.
One of the women who ventured into the vast territory of the West, to follow her husband serving in the military on the frontier, was Elizabeth Bacon Custer. She dedicated her last years to preserving the memory of her husband, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, who died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876.
