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       Elizabeth Bacon Custer

      "Boots and Saddles"; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664634726

       BOOTS AND SADDLES.

       CHAPTER I. CHANGE OF STATION.

       CHAPTER II. A BLIZZARD.

       CHAPTER III. WESTERN HOSPITALITY.

       CHAPTER IV. CAVALRY ON THE MARCH.

       CHAPTER V. CAMPING AMONG THE SIOUX.

       CHAPTER VI. A VISIT TO THE VILLAGE OF “TWO BEARS.”

       CHAPTER VII. ADVENTURES DURING THE LAST DAYS OF THE MARCH.

       CHAPTER VIII. SEPARATION AND REUNION.

       CHAPTER IX. OUR NEW HOME AT FORT LINCOLN.

       CHAPTER X. INCIDENTS OF EVERY-DAY LIFE.

       CHAPTER XI. THE BURNING OF OUR QUARTERS.—CARRYING THE MAIL.

       CHAPTER XII. PERPLEXITIES AND PLEASURES OF DOMESTIC LIFE.

       CHAPTER XIII. A “STRONG HEART” DANCE!

       CHAPTER XIV. GARRISON LIFE.

       CHAPTER XV. GENERAL CUSTER’S LITERARY WORK.

       CHAPTER XVI. INDIAN DEPREDATIONS.

       CHAPTER XVII. A DAY OF ANXIETY AND TERROR.

       CHAPTER XVIII. IMPROVEMENTS AT THE POST, AND GARDENING.

       CHAPTER XIX. GENERAL CUSTER’S LIBRARY.

       CHAPTER XX. THE SUMMER OF THE BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION.

       CHAPTER XXI. DOMESTIC TRIALS.

       CHAPTER XXII. CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE.

       CHAPTER XXIII. GARRISON AMUSEMENTS.

       CHAPTER XXIV. AN INDIAN COUNCIL.

       CHAPTER XXV. BREAKING UP OF THE MISSOURI.

       CHAPTER XXVI. CURIOUS CHARACTERS AND EXCURSIONISTS AMONG US.

       CHAPTER XXVII. RELIGIOUS SERVICES.—LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

       CHAPTER XXVIII. A WINTER’S JOURNEY ACROSS THE PLAINS.

       CHAPTER XXIX. OUR LIFE’S LAST CHAPTER.

       APPENDIX.

       THE YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION OF 1873.

       LETTERS FROM THE BLACK HILLS, 1874.

       LETTERS FROM THE YELLOWSTONE, 1876.

      OUTLINE MAP

       of portions of MONTANA & DAKOTA

      Copyright, 1885, by Harper & Brothers

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       CHANGE OF STATION.

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      General Custer graduated at West Point just in time to take part in the battle of Bull Run. He served with his regiment—the 5th Cavalry—for a time, but eventually was appointed aide-de-camp to General McClellan. He came to his sister’s home in my native town, Monroe, Michigan, during the winter of 1863, and there I first met him. In the spring he returned to the army in Virginia, and was promoted that summer, at the age of twenty-three, from captain to brigadier-general. During the following autumn he came to Monroe to recover from a flesh-wound, which, though not serious, disabled him somewhat. At that time we became engaged. When his twenty days’ leave of absence had expired he went back to duty, and did not return until a few days before our marriage, in February, 1864.

      We had no sooner reached Washington on our wedding-journey than telegrams came, following one another in quick succession, asking him to give up the rest of his leave of absence, and hasten without an hour’s delay to the front. I begged so hard not to be left behind that I finally prevailed. The result was that I found myself in a few hours on the extreme wing of the Army of the Potomac, in an isolated Virginia farm-house, finishing my honeymoon alone. I had so besought him to allow me to come that I did not dare own to myself the desolation and fright I felt. In the preparation for the hurried raid which my husband had been ordered to make he had sent to cavalry head-quarters to provide for my safety, and troops were in reality near, although I could