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|  | | Knoxville 1863
Gettysburg held. Vicksburg has fallen. Now Rebel flags ring Knoxville in East Tennessee. Can the ragged and starving Mississippi and Georgia veterans of Gettysburg climb the icy walls of Fort Sanders, to wrench the railroad hub away from the occupying Union army? Inside are New York troops who have never won a battle, led by a young lieutenant. In Washington, President Lincoln awaits the answer, one more key to saving the Union, freeing the slaves and victory in the Civil War.
Lovers of historical fiction will find much to ponder in the 1863 Confederate siege of Knoxville, Tennessee. President Lincoln considered Union victory there a key to winning the Civil War. The siege and its battle of Fort Sanders involved some of the war's most famous personalities and units. They are brought to life from available histories, diaries and memoirs: Gen. James Longstreet (Gen. Lee's "Warhorse") and his First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia---including Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade, and Parker's Boy Battery of the Sixth Virginia Artillery. Gen. Ambrose Burns | |  | | Leaving The Alamo, Texas Stories After Vietnam
Sixteen stories of middle-aged Texas veterans of combat in Vietnam coping with their war experiences and the judgments of their stay-at-home peers.
More than thirty years after the Vietnam war was lost, its aging American combat veterans cope with the judgments of their stay-at-home peers and the fighting that still goes on in their heads.
Here are sixteen stories of middle-aged Texans who are not in prison, panhandling on street corners or sleeping under bridges. They have learned to live, with varying success, with the dreams that stalk them at night and lurk in the background during the day, although one also has murder on his mind.
Another has a new baby whose birth surprisingly snuffed all of his father's war nig |
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