The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer: Reconstructed from Her Diaries and Notes. This item is unavailable.The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer: Reconstructed from Her Diaries and Notes

General Custer's wife shares her impressions of the Civil War, including the close proximity to danger and the anxious waits for her husband to return safely

"These pages contain considerable information on Custer's Civil War career that has never been published before... This is an important addition to the Custer canon and has much to offer students of the Civil War and frontier military." --Western Historical Quarterly "I recommend this book very highly and without reservation... Libbie Custer's style is just as readable, colorful, and distinctive as Miss Sarah Morgan Dawson's or Mrs. Chestnut's, but she offers something more: stimulating insights into the behavior of her husband and his officers and other army wives... I hear her voice as if speaking directly to me ..." --David Madden, director, United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University "... nothing much had ever been asked of me, certainly not courage. There could scarcely have been a more violent transition in a fortnight's time from a sheltered home where I was spared all anxieties and cares than when I found myself apparently alone, far out almost on the firing line on the extreme wing of the Army of the Potomac." --Elizabeth "Libbie" Bacon Custer