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Civil War #4
Trumpets Sound No More
In the days that followed Appomattox, exhausted Confederate soldiers and countrymen found that they had suffered through one long, bitter war only to be confronted by another: the grim fight to survive on their own devastated land. Gangs of wandering ex-soldiers and freed slaves pillaged the countryside. Thousands of Southerners perished; only a few were able to stand and fight for the little they had left.
297 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1975
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F. Van Wyck Mason
110 books19 followersaka Geoffrey Coffin, Frank W. Mason, Ward Weaver
Francis Van Wyck Mason (November 11, 1901 – August 28, 1978, Bermuda) was an American historian and novelist. He had a long and prolific career as a writer spanning 50 years and including 65 published novels.
Francis Van Wyck Mason (November 11, 1901 – August 28, 1978, Bermuda) was an American historian and novelist. He had a long and prolific career as a writer spanning 50 years and including 65 published novels.
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April 17, 2010
After the Civil War ended, many Confederate soldiers returned to their homes to find them reduced to ashes and their family murdered or disappeared.
Col. Rodney Tilt, Capt. Peter Hold and a number of men of the Eleventh Virginia decide to band together and go home. Others join them and they refer to themselves as Z Company.
They pass deserters, bushwackers and scattered Union Cavalry units looking for unparoled soldiers. As the group approaches Lynchburg, they are horrirfied to se a Union patrol rush into the city and begin shooting surrendered Confederate soldiers. They are informed that President Lincoln had been assassinated and the Union soldiers are patroling the road looking for revenge.
They do run into a cavalry unit that was waiting in ambush and many of their group is killed. The few that arrive home are just in time to see a band of outlaws attacking the house. They drive them off and begin rebuilding.
This is a story that is part love, part history and part survival. There are so many misfortunes that the story was overly unhappy and some of the actions of the characters seemed out of line with their prior actions.
The main benefit of the story was to tell some of a story of what it was like for Southern families after the Civil War.
Col. Rodney Tilt, Capt. Peter Hold and a number of men of the Eleventh Virginia decide to band together and go home. Others join them and they refer to themselves as Z Company.
They pass deserters, bushwackers and scattered Union Cavalry units looking for unparoled soldiers. As the group approaches Lynchburg, they are horrirfied to se a Union patrol rush into the city and begin shooting surrendered Confederate soldiers. They are informed that President Lincoln had been assassinated and the Union soldiers are patroling the road looking for revenge.
They do run into a cavalry unit that was waiting in ambush and many of their group is killed. The few that arrive home are just in time to see a band of outlaws attacking the house. They drive them off and begin rebuilding.
This is a story that is part love, part history and part survival. There are so many misfortunes that the story was overly unhappy and some of the actions of the characters seemed out of line with their prior actions.
The main benefit of the story was to tell some of a story of what it was like for Southern families after the Civil War.
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