Civil War

The Seven Percent Solution

The Seven Percent Solution

This month, I’d like to take another story from Statesmen of the Confederate Cause by Burton J. Hendrick to tell the tale of the $15,000,000 in Confederate bonds. Having failed to gain English and French recognition in the first year of the American Civil War, the...

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First Iowa Volunteer Mounted Infantry

First Iowa Volunteer Mounted Infantry

When preparing the back-story for the characters in the Shiloh Trilogy, I needed to identify a particular fictional Union regiment as the home for Jamie Harper, Joshua Featherstone, Gus Magnusson, Johnny Cooke, and the others. I wanted to identify a unit which could...

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The Tale of Katie Malloy

The Tale of Katie Malloy

When I write, I use the close third person point-of-view (POV) to tell the stories in The Shiloh Trilogy. I actually have three POV characters. First, is Jamie Harper, an officer in the Union army and nominally the lead protagonist in all three books – he is the title...

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