Violet Storm - Couverture rigide

James A. Huston

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0759689245 ISBN 13 : 9780759689244

Editeur : Parlux, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Huston James A Huston Anne Marshall

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Violet Storm was beautiful. She also was strong and intelligent. She stood firm and defiant against Yankee soldiers who overran her South Carolina Plantation, against Scalawags who stole her cotton and tried to take her land, and against suitors who wanted to steal her person during the long absence of her husband, Brent Sutler, in the Confederate Navy.Many volumes have been written about the Civil War; not so many about the Reconstruction-the twelve years of Yankee military occupation and Scalawag-Carpetbagger government that followed. For many Southerners the Reconstruction was a worse ordeal than the War itself. It was worse in South Carolina than in other states, perhaps because South Carolina was the first to secede and the first to fire a shot-at Fort Sumter-in the Civil War.This is the story of a woman who was determined to hold her family together and to bring back a measure of prosperity during those trying times.How did people cope with the Reconstruction? Some, like Brent's brother, went to the Far West or Mexico to get a new start. Some, like Violet's sisters and some of the neighbors, moved to the city. Some, like the neighbors across the way, resisted change. Some resorted to active resistance in vigilante groups. Some, like Violet's grandmother, lived in their memories and hoped for the best. Some, like the slaves who never returned, drifted to cities and became pawns of their alien masters. Some collaborated with the enemy and became Scalawags.But Violet and Brent were determined to hold to the best of the agrarian Old South and also to adapt to new conditions. They combined their efforts in maintaining a plantation with free labor and new machinery, running a mercantile business and a railroad, and participating in state politics. And still they found time to found a school for promising but impoverished children, black and white.Violet always insisted that Southern civilization had not been swept away by the Yankee conquest any more than the Atheni

Biographie de l'auteur :

James A. and Anne Marshall Huston make their home inLynchburg, Virginia.¿ He is a native ofFairmount, Indiana.¿ A great grandfatherserved in the Mississippi cavalry and a grandfather in the Indiana infantry inthe Civil War.¿ James was educated atIndiana University and New York University, with terms at Oxford in England andat Fribourg in Switzerland.Anne Marshall was born in High Point, NorthCarolina.¿ Later her family returned toher mother's home state of Virginia where Anne spent a large part of her lifein Williamsburg.¿ Two of her greatgrandfathers served in the Army of Northern Virginia.¿ At present, she is the Recorder of the Military Service Awardsfor the Capt. Sally Tompkins Chapter of the United Daughters of theConfederacy, Matthews Court House, Virginia.¿She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and completed herdoctoral studies at the University of Virginia.During World War II, James was operations officer ofan infantry battalion in Europe.¿ Hetaught history at Purdue University for twenty-five years, and for twelve yearswas Dean of Lynchburg College in Virginia.¿Anne Marshall has been an elementary school teacher, reading specialist,and reading consultant.¿ She has taughtgraduate courses at the College of William and Mary and the University ofVirginia, and undergraduate and graduate courses at Lynchburg College where shewas professor of education and director of the graduate reading specialistprogram.Both have professional books and articles publishedin their respective fields.¿ Inaddition, James is the author of an earlier historical novel dealing with therivalry of Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison.¿ Together the Hustons wrote a short novel, set in the Battle ofthe Bulge in the Ardennes during World War II.¿But so far as they are concerned, VioletStorm is their magnum opus.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Parlux
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0759689245
• ISBN 13: 9780759689244
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 724