George Custer, with wife and brother

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Custer, his wife Elizabeth "Libby" and brother Tom, shown here during the Civil War, all lived in Elizabethtown while the 7th U.S. Cavalry was stationed there. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #606 in Elizabethtown notes the service of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his men in Kentucky during the Reconstruction era. During the early 1870s, racial violence was so…