Custer Story - The Life Intimate Letters of General George A. Custer His Wife

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 events that would lead to his death at the Little Big Horn in Montana Territory. This title features the letters that reveal the nuances of personal and political loyalties.

Product details

• Authors: George A. Custer Custer, George Armstrong Custer, Marguerite Merington, Marguerite Custer Merrington, MERRINGTON MARGUERITE CUSTER GEO
• Assisted by: Marguerite Merington (Photographs), Marguerite Merington (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1987
• EAN: 9780803281387
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-8138-7
• No. of pages: 347
• Series: Bison Book S; Bison Book S
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography / Autobiography