Two Rebels from the Altamaha - Couverture souple

Bowers, William A

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0578612631 ISBN 13 : 9780578612638

Editeur : Swampfox Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Two teenagers left their homes in South Georgia to join the Confederate States Army. They become a part of the Army of Northern Virginia and fight in 44 engagements some of the worst in the war. After the battle of Olustee, Florida, on the return to Charleston, South Carolina they meet to young girls and fall in love. Over a year later, after the war's end, they are re acquainted with the girls, ending up with the two best of friends marrying two best of friends after being brought together by a terrible war.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William A. Bowers, Jr. was born August 5, 1947 in Saint Augustine, Florida to William Alfred Bowers Sr. and Lora Elizabeth Tuten. When he was young, his family returned to Baxley, Appling County, Georgia, where he lived, was raised and educated. He is a 1965 graduate of Appling County High School, an Eagle Scout and is retired from the Georgia Department of Transportation as an Area Engineer in South Georgia. He is married to Anna Deloris Willis of Toombs County. He is a member of the First United Methodist Church in Baxley, Georgia. For the last 24 years he has been involved in researching Confederate Units, battles and genealogy. Bill has been to almost all the places that the 27th, 47th and 54th Georgia fought and has stood where they stood in his research of this unit. He has given speeches across Georgia, Florida and South Carolina concerning those Confederate units and their part in the War for Southern Independence. He resides still in Appling County, Georgia and has served as a scout leader for 30 years, Commander of the Appling Grays Camp #918 Sons of Confederate Veterans, member of the Appling County Board of Education, the First United Methodist Church Administrative Board and the Appling County Heritage Center Board of Directors. He has published three regimental histories with the History of the 47th Georgia Volunteer Infantry being published in May 2013 and the History of the 27th Georgia Volunteer Infantry being published in February 2014. In 2016 he published the History of the 54th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. This completes the trilogy of Confederate Regimental Histories which encompasses the four companies of Confederate Infantry which originated in Appling County, Georgia. In 2017 he published the Bowers Genealogy, the Descendants of Benjamin Bowers, Sr., of Pitt County, North Carolina. This Book, Two Rebels from the Altamaha is his first novel and is about two young men from Appling County, Georgia who enlisted to fight for the Confederate States of America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Swampfox Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0578612631
• ISBN 13: 9780578612638
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne