Bicentennial Story #120-Fort Lincoln, June 25, 1876

Bicentennial Story #120-Fort Lincoln, June 25, 1876

Libby Custer's account of religious services at Fort Abraham Lincoln.

10/15/1975

Father Louis Pfaller

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English

BS-120

Fort Abraham Lincoln, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

Chaplains were not always available on the military posts in early Dakota. Libby, the Wife of General George A. Custer, recalled that at Fort Abraham Lincoln "on Sunday our only services most of the time was to meet together and sing hymns: In our little circle of forty, many denominations were represented, but all knew the old-time hymns." This was to be of much comfort to them, when the worried ladies at Fort Lincoln gathered at the Custer House on Sunday, June 25, 1876, to seek solace in their favorite hymns. "All were absorbed in the same thoughts," recalled Mrs. Custer---how were their husbands who had gone out on an expedition against the Sioux. On that very day, 26 of the ladies became widows as the Sioux triumphed in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 120, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

Elizabeth Custer, Boots and saddles, 179, 222.

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Bicentennial tape #7, Bicentennial stories 108-127