Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Elizabeth Bacon Custer was an American author and public speaker who was the wife of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer, United States Army. She spent most of their twelve-year marriage in relative proximity to him despite his numerous military campaigns in the American Civil War and subsequent postings on the Great Plains as a commanding officer in the United States Cavalry.

8 April 1842

Born on the same birth day (8 April): Dean Norris • Dennis Chávez • Glendon Swarthout • Ivan Supek • Julius Seljamaa • Manolis Angelopoulos • Martin J. Schreiber • Mehran Ghassemi • R. P. Keigwin • Ramón Emeterio Betances • Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant) • Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova • Tim Thomerson • Tony Barton (footballer) • William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

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