With Custers Cavalry

English

ISBN: 0803268602

EAN: 9780803268609

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Military

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Release Date: 09/01/1986

Synopsis: A wifes 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. Gibsons letters detailing the devastation, together with his wifes reports on the women at the army posts waiting for news, allow a fresh perspective on Custers Last Stand. Told in the first person, With Custers Cavalry represents the story of Katherine Gibson, the authors 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 babys 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.

With Custers Cavalry

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.73 inches

Width: 5.25 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 12.98 oz

Pages: 285