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The Story of Elizabeth Bacon Custer.
Elizabeth Custer’s father, Judge Bacon was apprehensive about his daughter’s plans to accompany her new husband to the still-war-torn Red River region in Louisiana. The cities and towns that lined the Red River in the northern portion of the state were leveled during the Union Army’s efforts to capture Shreveport, the headquarters for the Confederate Army in the trans-Mississippi area during the Civil War.
Judge Bacon was worried that it wasn’t a safe place for wives of Union officers. As one of the last Confederate strongholds, the shipping port community was overrun with carpetbaggers, lawbreakers, and hostile Rebel soldiers who were angry about the outcome of the war and steadfast in holding their ground. The judge hoped Elizabeth would return to Monroe and live with him and her stepmother until George settled at a more congenial post.
“I’m going with Autie,” Elizabeth told her father. “I’m always going to follow him wherever he’s ordered, if I can. I’ve made up my mind to do that.”
To learn more about Elizabeth Bacon Custer and how she lived to glorify her husband’s memory read None Wounded, None Missing, All Dead.
