General Custer in Kansas and Texas: Tenting on the Plains - Paperback

by Elizabeth B. Custer (Author)

CHAPTER I PAGE Good-by to the Army of the Potomac. 3. CHAPTER II New Orleans After the War. 16. CHAPTER III A Military Execution. 26. CHAPTER IV Marches Through Pine Forests. 38. CHAPTER V Out of the Wilderness. 45. CHAPTER VI A Texas Norther. 55. CHAPTER VII Life in a Texas Town. 66. CHAPTER VIII Letters Home. 75. CHAPTER IX Disturbed Condition of Texas. 84. CHAPTER X General Custer Parts with his Staff at Cairo and Detroit. 94. CHAPTER XI Orders to Report at Fort Riley, Kansas. 105. CHAPTER XII Westward Ho -Fighting Dissipation in the Seventh Cavalry-General Custer's Temptations. 114. CHAPTER XIII A Medley of Officers and Men. 133. CHAPTER XIV The Course of True Love. 146. CHAPTER XV A Prairie Fire. 164. CHAPTER XVI Sacrifices and Self-Denial of Pioneer Duty-Captain Robbins and Colonel Cook attacked, and Fight for Three Hours. 174. CHAPTER XVII A Flood at Fort Hays. 191. CHAPTER XVIII Ordered Back to Fort Harker. 200. CHAPTER XIX The First Fight of the Seventh Cavalry. 208.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Bacon Custer (April 8, 1842 - April 4, 1933) was the wife of General George Armstrong Custer. She spent most of their marriage in relatively close proximity to him despite his numerous military campaigns as a commanding officer in the United States Cavalry. After his death, she became an outspoken advocate for her husband's legacy through her popular books and lectures. Largely as a result of her endless campaigning on his behalf, Custer's iconic portrayal as the gallant fallen hero amid the glory of 'Custer's Last Stand' was a canon of American history for almost a century after his death.