Soul of a poet, son of a farmer Abraham Lincoln's early life, as he might have told it had he been so inclined Inescapably human, Abraham Lincoln tells his own coming-of-age story-he's nerdy, eccentric, awkward, rustic, vulnerable, depressed, sly, witty, brilliant, driven. Lincoln Raw-a biographical novel proves that no matter what raw materials we're made of or what mistakes we make along our journeys, our values, not our circumstances, determine...

In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was comprised of almost six hundred troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a deadly crossfire. Only sixty-two of the U.S. colored troops survived the fight unwounded. Many accused...

Travis lives isolated in the Allegheny Mountains in the mid-1800s. He loves God, loves his family, and is well respected by all on the mountain. But one decision- for the right reason-causes his unintentional entry into the Civil War. While he fights to survive in a hostile environment, his family has a fight of their own. Travis returns home to find most of his family gone. Now he must find a way to help his injured daughter. He has no one to...

Using historical facts as a time line reference gives my story some reasonable objectivity and even credibility. Patch has dedicated his life to the responsibility of upholding the law of the frontier. This includes the time he served as an army scout. Later he moved on to become the sheriff of Rutherford County, Tennessee. After being assigned as the temporary governor while the territory waited to be readmitted to the United States, he was...

Before she can be drowned as a witch, Elizabeth Robinson is swept away by the tide and the devil wind of Boston, Lincolnshire. She issues a curse on those responsible and declares that it will only end 'when the birdman falls from the sky and into the mire'. Then, and only then will the evil in her descendants that is ever present will be finally defeated 'and love will again prosper'. The story traces the fate of the Robinson and Williston families...

Virgil Clay-Harris and Willet Blackwell, childhood friends, return home together from the Civil Battle at Chickamauga to Cartersville, Georgia. Both men are physically and mentally scarred for life by their wartime experience. They are both fondly greeted upon their return by Deekie, their childhood tomboy companion who has transformed into a beautiful Southern belle. She loves both men, but her choice between them is clouded when one becomes a...

In the last few paragraphs of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, his protagonist, the young Henry Fleming, struggles with the aftermath of his wartime experiences. He is, tormented by his guilt from having abandoned the tattered soldier during the Battle of Chancellorsville and by the death of his best friend, Jim Conklin. Scholars have questioned Crane's implications here. Has Henry truly become "a man" because of the trauma he has experienced?...

Sometimes you look for peace and find war.The Civil War finds California. Ira Beard volunteers to defend the Union. Instead of traveling east he's sent to bring down a Rebel who has been robbing gold mines. Ira believes in honor and a righteous cause. When he gets wind of a plot to rob the San Francisco mint, he knows he has a war on his hands. When he learns his wife Octavia is held hostage, he really gets mad.Octavia de LaLuz, Ira's wife, is determined...

What lessons do we learn from the Battle of Gettysburg? What are the leadership principles that emerge out of contest that transcends time and space? Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address said, "that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." This book deals with leadership principles that apply across different venues of leadership including, Church leadership, government,...

Charles Wolfe Collins is an Irish immigrant, ex-spy, Pinkerton operative, and a veteran of the Civil War. Collins is being sent on a hazardous assignment by President Grant in 1876, the nation's centennial. President Grant has recently received intelligence in military dispatches that there had been white men fighting alongside the Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He wants Collins to investigate and report back regarding the identity...