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A Separate Country - In Stores Now!

A Separate Country will be released September 23Set in New Orleans in the years after the Civil War, A SEPARATE COUNTRY is a novel based on the incredible life of John Bell Hood, arguably one of the  most controversial generals of the Confederate Army--and one of its most tragic figures.  Robert E. Lee promoted him to major general after the Battle of Antietam.  But the Civil War would mark him forever. At Gettysburg, he lost the use of his left arm. At the Battle of Chickamauga, his right leg was amputated. Starting fresh after the war, he married Anna Marie Hennen and fathered 11 children with her, including three sets of twins.  But fate had other plans. Crippled by his war wounds and defeat, ravaged by financial misfortune, Hood had one last foe to battle: Yellow Fever.

A SEPARATE COUNTRY is the heartrending story of a decent and good man who struggled with his inability to admit his failures--and the story of those who taught him to love, and to be loved, and transformed him.

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THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH

In an Author's Note at the end of his book The Widow of the South, Robert Hicks tells us that "when Oscar Wilde made his infamous tour of America in 1882, he told his hosts that his itinerary should include a visit to 'sunny Tennessee to meet the Widow McGavock, the high priestess of the temple of dead boys.'" Carrie McGavock, The Widow of the South, did indeed take it upon herself to grieve the loss of so many young men in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, which took place on November 30, 1864. Nine thousand men lost their lives that day. She and her husband John eventually re-buried on their own land 1,481 Confederate soldiers killed at Franklin, when the family that owned the land on which the original shallow graves had been dug decided to plow it under and put it into cultivation.

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Aug172010

A New Carnton Book

DateTuesday, August 17, 2010 at 07:05PM

I am spent. Spent! 

Most of my day was 'spent' sitting right here, trying to edit and re-edit the new Carnton Book. This whole project has lasted longer than the American Civil War did. Seriously. 

Years ago someone talked the then director of the site into bringing the world-class photographer Bruce Wolf to Carnton to photograph the site. Turned out he needed two trips down here to do it. Out of his shoots came some of the handsomest photographs ever made of the site. While I was not sold on the project on the front end, there's no questioning Bruce Wolf's work. 

So after finally wrestling the project away from the chaos of the project manager and with the amazing, creative hard work of Brian Meneguza and rewriting the text (my part), the book will be out by November 1. Stay tuned and put it on your Holiday list. 

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