JACKSONVILLE, Ark., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Booming cannons, cracks of gunfire and soldiers charging Jacksonville's historic civil war battlefield will provide a realistic experience for visitors during the Battle of Reed's Bridge Reenactment on September 11 and 12, 2010.
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Polaneczky: Book shows unique side of Civil War
When young black Confederate soldier Pinkus Aylee finds Sheldon Curtis, a white Union soldier his age, crumpled in a field and close to death after being wounded, Pinkus (A.K.A. Pink) saves him, despite their differences. For days he carries Sheldon (aka Say), until he gets to his own home, and he and his mother nurse Say back to health.
New Civil War Historical Novel Offering Perspective From Both Sides of the Line Puts Reader on the Battlefield
A Dark and Bloody Ground: Sowing the Wind, chronicles the week of October 4-9, 1862, when the fate of Kentucky lay literally in the balance. As vast foraging armies swept the countryside, soldiers from the North and the South lived, fought and died staining Kentucky's soul with their blood and fulfilling Kentucky's prophetic sobriquet as 'A Dark and Bloody Ground.' Michael Willever takes the reader back through time and into the heart of the battle, the reader witnessing events through the eyes of seven protagonists, four Southern and three Northern. This novel for the first time brings to life such historical figures as George Thomas, Leonidas Polk, Joe Wheeler, and Patrick Cleburne to name but a few.
