Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Elizabeth Clift Bacon Custer 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 husbands legacy through her popular books and lectures. Largely as a result of her endless campaigning on his behalf, Custers iconic portrayal as the gallant fallen hero amid the glory of Custers Last Stand was a canon of American history for almost a century after his death.

Elizabeth Libbie Bacon was born in Monroe, Michigan, in 1842, the daughter of a wealthy and influential judge. Tragedy marked much of her childhood, with her three siblings and mother all dying before Elizabeths thirteenth year. As the only one of the judges children that would live to adulthood, her father doted on her. Elizabeth was both beautiful and intelligent, graduating from a girls seminary in June 1862 at the head of her class. Her father hoped she would make a good marriage with a man from her own elevated social status, and she rejected several suitors.

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