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

Author: Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48972

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%22Boots+and+Saddles%22%3B+Or%2C+Life+in+Dakota+with+General+Custer+Custer&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 b...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/27/index.md)
- [ill. Without his knowledge I sent for the surgeon, who, like all of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/3/index.md)
- [did. He finally turned to look back and tell me how to manage my](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/boots-and-saddles-or-life-in-dakota-with-general-custer-48972/chapters/2/index.md)