Libbie Author:Judy Alter LIBBIE — She was just a young girl when she fell in love with George Armstrong Custer, and barely a woman when she defied her father to marry him. But for Elizabeth Bacon Custer, following her heart was the only choice. Through fever and floods, homesickness and hardship, on battlefields and across rugged Indian territory, she would risk her life... more » to make a home for her beloved "Autie." And only in the pages of her personal journal would she admit to her own quiet battles: to understand the brilliant Boy General who was both devoted husband and womanizer, hero and glory seeker... and to steel herself against the day she would lose him once and for all.« less