Of the seven widows, Elizabeth Custer was the most well known. In the twelve years the Custers were together, Elizabeth lived history. She and her famous husband had been married a little more than a year when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox and she was given the table at which the terms of surrender were drafted. After the Civil War, she and George traveled to various army posts across the American West. Trekking across the frontier was a thrilling chapter of Elizabeth’s life, one that lasted until the memorable day when Custer and his comrades made their immortal stand against the Sioux Indians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. During that last battle of Custer’s men, Elizabeth was less than four hundred miles away at Fort Abraham Lincoln, waiting bravely for word of the outcome. Later, it was Elizabeth’s duty to tell the officers’ wives at the post that their husbands had been killed.