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	PBS - THE WEST - George Armstrong Custer
		In July of 1866 Custer was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Cavalry.
		Custer was sent to the Northern Plains in 1873, where he soon participated in a few small skirmishes with the Lakota in the Yellowstone area.
		Custer, however, advanced much more quickly than he had been ordered to do, and neared what he thought was a large Indian village on the morning of June 25, 1876.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/custer.htm (818 words)

	Elizabeth Bacon Custer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elizabeth Bacon Custer (April 8, 1842 - April 6, 1933) was the wife of General George Armstrong Custer.
		Custer's portrayal as a gallant fallen hero and the glory of Custer’s Last Stand that were canons of American history for more than a century after his death was largely the result of her endless campaigning on his behalf.
		Elizabeth “Libbie” Bacon was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1842, the daughter of a wealthy and influential judge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Bacon_Custer (660 words)

	Elizabeth "Libby" Bacon Custer - Misc. Characters
		Custer's portrayal as a gallant fallen hero and the glory of Custer’s Last Stand that were canons of American history for more than a century after his death was largely the result of her endless campaigning on his behalf.
		Elizabeth “Libbie” Bacon was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1842, the daughter of a wealthy and influential judge.
		Elizabeth was both beautiful and intelligent, and her father hoped she would make a good marriage with a man from her own elevated social class.
	www.franksrealm.com /Indians/MISC_WHITES/pages/misccharacter-libbycuster.htm (603 words)

	MCLS - Custer in the News - Mrs. Custer Dead In Her 91st Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Elizabeth Bacon Custer, widow of General George A. Custer, famous Indian fighter of post Civil War days, died at 5:30 yesterday afternoon in her apartment at 71 Park Avenue after a heart attack that occurred Sunday evening.
		Elizabeth Bacon Custer kept vividly alive the memories of the gallant cavalry commander, whose death in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana, in 1876, when his battalion was annihilated by the Indians, made one of the most tragic and dramatic pages of American history.
		Custer was born in Monroe, Mich., the daughter of Judge Daniel S. Bacon, where she led a peaceful and sheltered life until 1864, when she married "the boy General with the golden locks".
	monroe.lib.mi.us /hs_special_collections_custer_news_mrscuster_dead.htm (896 words)

	WWAD: Elizabeth Bacon Custer
		George Custer was born at New Rumley, Ohio on December 5, 1839, to Mr.
		Elizabeth learned to adapt to her ever-changing surroundings and became an avid frontierswomen to accompany her loving wife role.
		Elizabeth graduated from Boyds Seminary in 1861 as the class valedictorian and was married to Custer in the First Presbyterian Church, both located at Monroe, Michigan.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/389/noframes/middendorf.html (609 words)

	General and Mrs Custer
		Custer was transferred to Kansas in 1866 and was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876.
		His widow, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, did what she could to further his reputation, writing laudatory accounts of his life that portrayed him as not only a military genius but also a refined and cultivated man, a patron of the arts, and a budding statesman.
		Elizabeth accompanied the troops in August 1865 and later wrote of her hardships in her second book, Tenting on the Plains, published in 1887.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/america/custer.htm (1801 words)

	Welcome to the University of Oklahoma Press - home
		George Armstrong Custer’s death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt.
		She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings.
		In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of "Libbie," a frontier army wife who willingly adhered to the social and religious restrictions of her day, yet used her authority as model wife and widow to influence events and ideology far beyond the private sphere.
	www.oupress.com /bookdetail.asp?isbn=0-8061-3096-2 (147 words)

	George Armstrong Custer
		When the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac was reorganized under Philip Henry Sheridan in 1864, Custer retained his command, and took part in the various actions of the cavalry in the Wilderness and Shenandoah campaigns.
		In 1866 Custer was made lieutenant-colonel of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, and took part under General Winfield Scott Hancock in the expedition against the Cheyenne Indians, upon whom he inflicted a crushing defeat at Washita river on the 27th of November 1868.
		Becoming aide-de-camp to General Custer, he accompanied him throughout the latter part of the war, distinguishing himself by his daring on all occasions, and winning successively the brevets of captain, major and lieutenant-colonel, though he was barely twenty years of age when the war ended.
	www.nndb.com /people/760/000026682 (699 words)

	They Died With Their Boots On
		From a small mountain, Custer's Indian scouts saw an Indian village in the distance, but they could only see a small part of the whole as the view was blocked by the higher ground along one side of the Little Big Horn River.
		Custer split his forces into three parts, one under himself, another under Reno and the third under Benteen, because he did not want the Indians to get away from him.
		Custer's body was found with the largest group of dead troupers.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/bootson.html (869 words)

	Rebecca Visits Kansas and the Custers
		General Custer [1] and his wife, Anna Darrah, [2] Charles Kendall, Mary and I were stationed in the front parlor at one o'clock today to receive the callers and pass others along to the refreshment table in the back room.
		Bacon came in from town this afternoon,expecting to join a riding party for "Sheridan's Drive" but the column failing to move croquet was substituted.
		Anna Darrah was a former schoolmate of Elizabeth Custer, a daughter of Lewis Darrah of Monroe, Mich. She had first come to Kansas with the Custers in 1866 and Mrs.
	www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1976/76_4_millbrook.htm (15372 words)

	MCLS - Custer in the News - STORY FROM MONROE ABOUT MRS. CUSTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Custer was the daughter of a pioneer Monroe county probate judge, Daniel S. Bacon.
		It was in the Bacon home at Monroe and Second streets where now stands the federal building that Elizabeth Bacon met the boy who later was to become her husband and a hero in the nation's military annals.
		Custer visited Monroe in 1910 to assist in unveiling a monument to the memory of General Custer.
	monroe.lib.mi.us /hs_special_collections_custer_news_story.htm (327 words)

	VanAnn as Libby Custer
		During those adventures, whe wore her own uniformed dresses to show her dedication to the famed 7th Cavalry as it was stationed in the wilds of Kansas and the Dakotas.
		Forever a heated topic for debate, the controversy of George Armstrong Custer and his influence on the West necessitates that LIbby perpetually ride the plains to clarify how the West was really, or mythically won.
		Libby Custer is brought to life through a warm and touching drama with Americana flavor.
	vanann.com /pages/VA_LC.html (184 words)

	Alibris: Elizabeth Bacon Custer
		Libby Custer takes readers back to the late 1860s to follow her husband, General Armstrong Custer, and the Seventh Cavalry to Kansas and the Battle of the Washita River.
		Custer's widow gives a vivid and unforgettable account of life with her husband and his troops in Sioux country in the Dakotas.
		Elizabeth Custer chronicles the journey with her legendary husband, General George A. Custer, from the time of his leaving the Army of the Potomac in 1865 to travel through Texas, New Orleans, and to the western frontier.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Elizabeth_Bacon_Custer (420 words)

	Newpaper one (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		On the way down the path, Custer seemed so quiet and subdued that one Lieutenant remarked: "I believe General Custer is going to be killed" A few days later, one of the many Indian scouts reported that he was almost certain that the path lead to Little Bighorn.
		Custer was about to make the decision that meant life or death not only to him, but his troops also.
		Custer was famous for his good luck and was given many respected Indian names like "Yellow Hair" and "Son of the Morning Star".
	www.ucls.uchicago.edu /people/faculty/Peggy_Doyle/per5littlebecca (508 words)

	ELIZABETH CUSTER LIBRARY & MUSEUM
		A century-plus search for understanding and significance in the story of George Armstrong Custer and his youthful demise is turning a new leaf at the battlefield where he and more than 200 of his men over-reached and became an historical enigma for the ages.
		He notes Elizabeth Custer fits in this broadened concept because she was the first woman allowed to share her husband’s military quarters on the frontier.
		Custer’s will, Kortlander finds it interesting that this long-unknown group of mementos of the lives of her and her famous husband finally found its way to a battlefield museum, as was her apparent first wish — and still bearing the Custer name.
	www.custerlibrary.org /newsbhc.htm (2015 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Civil War memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer : reconstructed from her diaries and notes / by Arlene Reynolds.
		Custer, in the Civil War : his unfinished memoirs / compiled and edited by John M. Carroll.
		Custer in Texas : an interrupted narrative : including narratives of the First Iowa Cavalry, the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, the Second Wisconsin Cavalry, and the military mutiny in Custer's command while in Louisiana / compiled, edited, and written by John M. Carroll.
	clarke.cmich.edu /civilwar/cwpublished/leadcuster.htm (263 words)

	George Armstrong Custer
		That same day Custer was jumped in rank from captain to brevet brigadier general on the recommendation of General Pleasonton.
		In September Custer was given command of the Third Cavalry Division.
		Custer was promoted to brevet major general during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and went on to gain even more accolades in the Appomattox Campaign.
	www.inn-california.com /Articles/biographic/custer.html (989 words)

	Custer, The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer, University of Texas Press
		In this volume, Arlene Reynolds has produced a readable narrative of Libbie Custer's life during the war years by chronologically reconstructing Libbie's original, unpublished notes and diaries found in the archives of the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument.
		In these reminiscences, Libbie Custer adds striking, eloquent details to the Civil War story as she describes her life both in camp and in Washington.
		Her stories of incidents such as fording a swollen river sidesaddle on horseback, dancing at the Inaugural Ball near President Lincoln, and watching the massive review of the Army of the Potomac after the surrender have the engrossing quality of a well-written novel.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/cusciv.html (427 words)

	George A. Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
		George Armstrong Custer was elevated to the rank of General by a battlefied commission during the Civil War.
		However, Custer had a way of making himself a public hero, and therefore difficult to control by his superiors.
		Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons, commanded by Gen. George Custer, crossing the plains of Dakota Territory.
	www.hanksville.org /daniel/misc/Custer.html (1587 words)

	The Historian: Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Shirley A. Leckie's biography of Elizabeth Bacon Custer seeks to explain how this remarkable woman helped create, disseminate, and defend against all challengers the image of her husband that she presented to the public.
		Her position as Custer's widow made it nearly impossible for others to challenge her version of the Custer myth.
		The constant themes throughout all of her writings were Custer the hero and Custer as the loving son, brother, and husband; she purposely omitted references to his court-martial or any issue that would detract from his positive image.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:15867968&refid=ink_tptd_mag (556 words)

	Wife Of General George Armstrong Custer - Commercial General Liability Insurance Oilfield - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		CUSTER, George Armstrong, soldier, born in New Rumley, Ohio, December 5, 1839; died on June 25, 1876.
		wife Elizabeth B., is the author of Boots and Saddles (New York, 1886), and Tenting on the Plains, or Life with General Custer...
		Custer, custer George Armstrong Custer Custer George Armstrong Custer Born: 1839 in New...
	www.texasattorneygeneral.plussizebras.be /commercial-general-liability-insurance-oilfield/wife-of-general-george-armstrong-custer.html (293 words)

	Tom Custer Chronology
		Custer family moves to a farm north of town.
		Custer family moves to Tontogany, Wood County, Ohio.
		August: Nevin Custer joins the Union Army, and is discharged.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~pardos/TomCusterChron.html (2102 words)

	Tom Custer Bibliography
		Custer, Elizabeth B., Boots and Saddles (1885, University of Oklahoma Press reprint 1961).
		Custer, Elizabeth B., Tenting on the Plains (1893, University of Oklahoma Press reprint 1994).
		Custer, Elizabeth B., and Arlene Reynolds, The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer (University of Texas Press, 1994).
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~pardos/TomCusterBiblio.html (1034 words)

	Custer
		His cavalry units played a critical role in forcing the retreat of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's forces; in gratitude, General Philip Sheridan purchased and made a gift of the Appomattox surrender table to Custer and his wife, Elizabeth Bacon Custer.
		Custer was transferred to Kansas in 1866 and was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876.
		Custer's body was exhumed from the battle site and reinterred at West Point in 1877.
	www.cavhooah.com /custer.htm (1755 words)

	Custer Battlefield Museum Online Store :: Index
		The honey moon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of th...
		When General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he was possibly the most not...
		Elizabeth Bacon Custer was a beautiful and loyal Army wife to the legendary General George Armstrong Custer.
	www.store.custermuseum.org /index.php?c=1 (1128 words)

	Custer
		Composed in the form of Custer's journal, this book is an impeccable merger of fact and fiction.
		Custer's name evokes instant recognition in almost every American and in people around the world.
		Her absolute devotion to him is revealed in every line of her account, which ends with the day on which she received the news of the disaster at the Little Big horn $14.95
	www.bookguy.com /civilwar/custer.htm (329 words)

	FLLS-READING ROOM-Battle of the Little Big Horn
		Men with Custer : biographies of the 7th Cavalry : June 25, 1876 by Hammer, Kenneth M., Nichols, Ronald H. Webster's American military biographies by G.
		The Custer story : the life and intimate letters of General George A. Custer and his wife Elizabeth by Custer, George Armstrong, Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, Merington, Marguerite.
		The report appears to support Philo Clark and John Stands-in-Timber: i.e., Custer reached the river at Ford D, not Ford B, and was in the valley in the vicinity of the railroad bridge (Curley’s cabin).
	www.lewis.army.mil /DPCA/LIBRARY/bighorn.htm (1397 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: CUSTER, ELIZABETH BACON
		Elizabeth Bacon Custer, the only surviving child of Judge Daniel and Eleanor Sophia (Page) Bacon, was born at Monroe, Michigan, on April 8, 1842.
		Sheridan, anticipating military action against Mexico, ordered Custer, now major general of volunteers, to march a cavalry division from Alexandria, Louisiana, to Hempstead, Texas.
		Elizabeth B. Custer Collection, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Montana.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fcuqt.html (637 words)

	Native American and Northern Plains Historical Resources Guide
		Custer died for your sins; an Indian manifesto.
		Custer and the Cheyenne : George Armstrong Custer's winter campaign on the southern plains
		Marching with Custer: a day-to-day evaluation of the uses, abuses, and conditions of the animals on the ill fated expedition of 1876
	www.usd.edu /library/jstor/subject2.cfm?subject=Custer,+George+A%0D (1173 words)

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