the six kids ? : Originally Posted by offshoredrillingIt was a Jefferson but nobody can be sure if Thomas was the father.
Custer wrote her, “Oh, I do want one so badly. I know where I would kiss somebody if I was with her tonight.”
She wrote of “a soft place upon Somebody’s carpet,” and of her desire to “sit Tomboy” (as in astride) for a “ride.” They were fond of asking for “just one.”
The steamy correspondence continued after the war. Some of it revealed a tendency on both parts to play with fire. Custer was a celebrity, a rock star, and he loved the nightlife of Manhattan, his favorite city. With Libbie back in Monroe, Michigan, he wrote her that he was “nearly starved for a ride… (but) I cannot without great expense and much danger enjoy the luxury of a such a ride as that I refer to. I never did enjoy riding strange horses.” I’m sure Libbie was glad to hear it…https://frontierpartisans.com/5212/those-lusty-custers/