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Wild Pony Publishing
January 2011
On Sale: January 1, 2011
357 pages
ISBN: 061542676X
EAN: 9780615426761
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Historical
A glimpse inside the pages of As the Cannon
Roar:
Hundreds upon hundreds of stories have been written about
the American Civil War. Although set in the Antebellum era
of the “Old South” this story is not one of them. This is an
in depth study of a family’s struggle to hold onto the only
home and the only family they have ever known as the war
rages all around them. It is a gritty but true to life
story. It is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. It is full
of despicable men doing despicable things. It is a story of
love. It is a story of a marriage that is - in that time -
frowned upon. Yet in order to tell this heart-rending
story of war and love, and as a way to introduce the
dreadfully wounded Confederate Artillery Captain, Thaddeus
Biggs and his love of a country girl, one battle, that known
as “Malvern Hill,” is used as a
backdrop.
Lillie Beth is the daughter of a poor dirt farmer,
Tink Strickland. Tink is an evil man and void of all
humanity. His jealousy of the successes of his neighbors
tears at him and he will stop at no depravity in his efforts
to obtain similar wealth. Therefore, his family
suffers greatly at his
hands.
Wounded and near death, a handsome, young Confederate
Artillery officer is brought to Lillie’s father’s log cabin
which has recently been appropriated as a field hospital.
There she soothes the man’s heated brow with a wet cloth and
cool well water and appoints herself as his
nurse. Little does Lillie know the wounded man
suffering on the tick-mattress upon the floor is from the
wealthiest family in all of North Carolina. But knowing only
poverty, such wealth has no meaning to her. Her life changes
drastically when Captain Thaddeus Biggs’ father arrives to
take his son
home.
The Biggs family has nearly disintegrated upon learning
their beloved son and brother has been wounded in battle,
while the Strickland family near the battle of Malvern Hill
dissolves so completely it will never recover.
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