If you would like to keep up with what’s happening with the new novel ( and a secret novel, I’m working on, too) take 10 seconds and subscribe at the subscribe icon. 10 seconds and you’ll get a few up to date emails. Coming up, I’m presenting at Jefferson Davis’s Memorial Plantation. I’ll be at […]
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Real People in the Throes of Death Truly Understanding Life
While building my novel, Asunder, A Novel of the Civil War, I was constantly struck by the myriad letters that were so eloquent in style and tone. The women and men who wrote the letters did so with such passion and remorse and hope, sorrow and joy. Their words felt they were delved from the […]
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In researching for my novel, Asunder, A Novel of the Civil War, I had a lot to learn. I dug through volumes of googled information as well as from books and pamphlets and actual Civil War era documents. I toured the battlefields multiple times. On one trek I walked the entire distance through chest high […]
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I made it into the papers with a presentation to about 300. Gave #history of #Civilwar and performed the banjo, too.
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Real Answers About the Civil War
answers to the facebook questions The men and women of the Civil War were real people with real talents and real challenges. 1. Ulysses s. grant was an accomplished artist. google his paintings. 2.stonewall Jackson got his nickname at the first battle of bull run when general bee said “look, there stands Jackson like a […]
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