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The Last Hundred #1
Only The Leaves Whispering
Jock MacNeil, the eldest son of a Highland Catholic family, leaves school at thirteen to follow his father's footsteps and become a blacksmith. But after a family tragedy changes his plans, Jock joins CSS Alabama and heads to the New World.
He befriends the retired Royal Navy Surgeon, James Gunn, and David Llewellyn Assistant Surgeon of Alabama. Living among the seamen, Jock learns how to take responsibility - and how to defend himself.
But can Jock survive the perilous journey, and what awaits him in the Civil War on the other side of the Atlantic?
He befriends the retired Royal Navy Surgeon, James Gunn, and David Llewellyn Assistant Surgeon of Alabama. Living among the seamen, Jock learns how to take responsibility - and how to defend himself.
But can Jock survive the perilous journey, and what awaits him in the Civil War on the other side of the Atlantic?
280 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 5, 2020
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February 5, 2025
Well Researched
This takes us from Greenock in Scotland to the American Civil War through an interesting character. We learn about the Confederate ship Alabama. We learn about the Cherokee Mounted Rifles and Stand Watie. Jim Ellis knows his stuff and brings fact and fiction to this story of Jock in a changing seascape and landscape.
This takes us from Greenock in Scotland to the American Civil War through an interesting character. We learn about the Confederate ship Alabama. We learn about the Cherokee Mounted Rifles and Stand Watie. Jim Ellis knows his stuff and brings fact and fiction to this story of Jock in a changing seascape and landscape.
November 23, 2021
News from the other side
Loved the characters Jim and Jock....tough lives for them both...adventures, believable and well described. Help along the way as these youngsters grew up. War never truly has a victor.
Loved the characters Jim and Jock....tough lives for them both...adventures, believable and well described. Help along the way as these youngsters grew up. War never truly has a victor.
September 30, 2021
Could not get behind the pro southern civil war justifications.
Rationalizations about slavery. Every main confederate character that was for the south, was personally against slavery. I could not tell by the presummary what this book was really about until i got a few chapters in. I kept reading on the hopes the main character would change his mind about the good confederacy.
Rationalizations about slavery. Every main confederate character that was for the south, was personally against slavery. I could not tell by the presummary what this book was really about until i got a few chapters in. I kept reading on the hopes the main character would change his mind about the good confederacy.
September 2, 2025
The story follows Jock, a Scot, through his adventures at sea, and finally in the Confederate Army, alongside a Cherokee friend Jim.
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