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Follow the journey of the Confederate Treasury as government leaders flee Richmond, Virginia for the safety of the deep South. This historical novel weaves a plot of mystery and corruption against the chaotic backdrop of the final days of the Confederacy. |
When desperate Confederate veterans learned about a wagon train carrying nearly a half million dollars in gold coins, all bets were off. This is the true story of one of the most famous events of the post war era and a crime that has yet to be solved! GRABALL ROAD has been updated to include transcripts of source documents from eyewitnesses! |
Being black and free at the end of the Civil War was no guarantee of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The murder of freedwoman Nellie West should have shocked a community for its callousness and brutality. But attitudes were quite to the contrary, as her two white killers approached a date with the hangman. This historical novel is true to the facts of the case and will leave you wondering whether we live in a nation built on laws or political influence. 
Imagine the Civil War underway today. Up-to-the-minute dispatches in daily newspapers. Real time dialog on social media. Cable television broadcasting live pictures from the fighting. It’s easy to become accustomed to getting our daily news and information quickly—with a tap on an app! Not so during the war years in the 19th century.
Newspapers were the mass media of the time. They played a dominant, and some might say, monopolistic, role in forming public opinion. Editors chose sides, and their opinions were liberally extolled on their pages, sometimes in how a story was presented and also in whether the story got into print at all. This volume is a collection of newspaper articles published during the war years—1861-1865. Stories are grouped by subject matter. The topics were chosen because they demonstrate the challenges of daily life. Battles and generals are left to others. These stories from the home front of the South, including the atmosphere in Southern cities, the challenges to feed a nation, the role of religion, relations with slaves, the status of women—are just some of the topics engaged in these pages. |
Abraham Dionysius Chenault, a farmer by birth, reinvented himself as a family doctor without any formal training or education. And when the state decided to crack down on so-called "quacks," the response from this popular minister was not one you would have expected from a man of God. This historic novel is built on the real life story of truly a man of mystery and deception. 
Get a taste of life during America's bloodiest conflict. While the fathers, sons and brothers were far afield facing the enemy, life continued at home. The challenges faced by the women and children left behind were extraordinary. The topics were chosen because they demonstrate the challenges of daily life. Battles and generals are left to others. These stories from the home front in the South include the atmosphere in Southern cities, the challenges to feed a nation, the role of religion, relations with slaves, the status of women - all just some of the topics engaged in these pages. |
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The American Civil War was about more than states rights, independence, freedom, abolition, liberty or any other label one would choose to assign to the four-year conflict. In the end it was about the untimely deaths of hundreds of thousands of men – all Americans – cut down in the prime of their lives in fierce battles, consumed by terrible diseases, taken out in horrible accidents, and even the victims of murder. The war was also about broken families left at home to struggle for subsistence, to mourn the loss of those held dear, and to experience death themselves. 1861-1865 was a painful period in our country’s young existence, and that pain was on full display each day when people picked up their local newspaper. Death was ever-present. Spread across the pages were invitations to funerals, tributes to the deceased, and advertisements from undertakers. The number of men who died in uniform has been estimated between 620,000 and 750,000. Twice as many soldiers died from disease as from wounds on the battlefield. Rampant maladies included typhoid fever, consumption (or tuberculosis), dysentery, pneumonia, and so many others, which principally resulted from poor sanitary conditions in the military camps. Regardless of how a Confederate soldier passed into the next life, his mourning became an opportunity to celebrate the death of a martyr for the Southern cause. Book is a collection of newspaper accounts of obituaries, funerals and burials in the South during the American Civil War.
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What were Southerners reading on the Home Front during the Civil War? As a break from the news of the day, they read the wide variety editors included in newspapers and magazines—songs, speeches, poems, appeals, announcements, jokes, essays, diary entries, travelogues and even novelettes. You will find samples of all of these in this text—with subjects ranging from the courageous soldiers and their enduring faith to more fun topics such as young love, a farmer’s corn crop and many more. Anyone from a private individual who wrote a poem to honor a loved one to acclaimed authors of poems and prose found sources for publication, giving birth to writings that are uniquely Southern. |