A wife's premonition spared Lieutenant Francis M. Gibson from the
fate that overtook General George A. Custer and the Seventh U. S.
Cavalry. At her insistence, he declined a transfer that would have
placed him in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but he was on the
scene immediately after it. Gibson's letters detailing the
devastation, together with his wife's reports on the women at the
army posts waiting for news, allow a fresh perspective on "Custer's
Last Stand." Told in the first person, With Custer's Cavalry
represents the story of Katherine Gibson, the author's mother, who
supplied all of the material.
Mrs. Gibson describes a phase of army life during the 1870s and
1880s that has received scant attention--a gala wedding, a baby's
funeral, a sewing bee, a buffalo stampede, a smallpox epidemic. She
provides candid glimpses of her good friends, the Custers. And
every page brings the reader closer to the intimate events
surrounding the most infamous battle in the history of the
West.
General
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