Description
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.
Reviews
"The letters provide a rare and unusual contribution to the basic data of America's military and social history-a wife's-eye view of war and soldiering, and a soldier's on-the-spot confidences to his wife. . . . Neither of the Custers was writing for posterity, and posterity becomes thereby the gainer."-Saturday Review of Literature
"There is much interest here for anyone interested in the man and his deeds."-Hoffman Birney, New York Times
Book Information
ISBN 9780803281387
Author Marguerite Merington
Format Paperback
Page Count 347
Imprint Bison Books
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 482g