Soldier, Sister, Spy, Scout by Chris Enss & JOANN CHARTIER

Author:Chris Enss & JOANN CHARTIER
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493023400
Publisher: TwoDot
Published: 2016-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Elizabeth Custer

Champion of the Seventh

With my husband’s departure my last days in the garrison were ended, as a premonition of disaster that I had never known before weighed me down. I could not shake off the baleful influence of depressing thought. This presentiment and suspense, such as I had never known, made me selfish, and I shut into my heart the most uncontrollable anxiety, and could lighten no one else’s burden.

—ELIZABETH BACON CUSTER, JUNE 24, 1876

IT WAS ALMOST TWO IN THE MORNING, AND ELIZABETH CUSTER, the young wife of the famed “boy general”* George, couldn’t sleep. The heat kept her awake—a sweltering intense heat that had overtaken Fort Lincoln in the Dakota Territory earlier that day. Even if the conditions had been more congenial, however, sleep would have eluded Elizabeth. The rumor that had swept through the army post around lunchtime disturbed her greatly, and, until this rumor was confirmed, she doubted that she’d be able to get a moment’s rest.

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