Will Honor Custer

Will Honor Custer

“His appointment to the military academy at West Point was given to him by an Ohio congressman, but it was always to Monroe that he returned for his furloughs during his academy course as well as on his later leaves of absence during the war. There he was married to Miss Libble Bacon, daughter of Judge Bacon, one of the most prominent of the town's citizens, and there was the sorrow greatest when the dread news came on that Fourth of July of centennial year of the annihilation by the Sioux under Sitting Bull of the gallant general and his whole command of the seventh cavalry on the Little Big Horn in Montana, eight days previous…”

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Washington Bee

1907-4-13