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| Posted: Sun Sep 23rd, 2007 06:36 pm |
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cklarson
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Dear Colleagues,
As you can read in my general chatroom posting, I have published a work of fiction: South Under a Praire Sky: The Journal of Nell Churchill, US Army Nurse & Scout that is partly based on my family in IL. The 83rd IL was from Monmouth largely and the 36th IL in which my ggguncle, John Shook, served was from Henderson Co. He died from wounds received at Stone's River.
This is a unisex work, as most of Nell's male relatives, enllist. She follows the prewar political debates that include the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the 1860 campaign. She enrolls as a nurse following Shiloh and is enlisted as a scout by Rosecrans in TN in late 1862.
Almost everything in the work is fact-based and an Underbook separates fact from fiction and adds detail and commentary.
C. Kay Larson, author
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24th, 2007 02:00 am |
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wags6817
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This book sounds very interesting and I myself wish I had the ability to write a book about my ancesters who fought in the civil war. Where can one purchase your books?
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24th, 2007 04:38 pm |
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cklarson
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Dear Ohio Colleague,
You can purchase both my books from Amazon.com and Xlibris Corp. (http://www.xlibris.com/1-888-795-4274) (My other book, Great Necessities, is a bio of Anna Ella Caroll, Lincoln's political/legal advisor who was also a military secret agent, see http://www.nymas.org -- right side bar, the Tenn. R. campaign)
The full title of the 83rd/36th book is: South Under a Praire Sky: The Journal of Nell Churchill, US Army Nurse & Scout, a very fact-based work of fiction. Please read the full posting in the discussion/book chat section.
In doing the research, I was able to find internet postings of the Monmouth Atlas newspaper from 1860, as well as letters from Mitchel Thompson, a young farmer from Spring Grove and a member of the 83rd IL. John Wayne's ancestor, Marion Morrison (after whom he was named) was also in the 83rd and barely escaped a drunken Confederate cavalry massacre near Ft. Donelson in 1864. (Wayne's great uncle was also a professor at Monmouth College). So I was able to post authentic information and documents in the journal that pertained to, pre- and wartime events in Monmouth, including some Copperhead ones, the deaths of my relatives David Salter and John Shook, and the Confederate massacre. I also venture into topics not normally touched on: Germans and Swedes in the CW (the Turners provided secret bodyguards for Lincoln and other politicians), mascots, the underground RR in NW IL, slavery in IL, topographical engineers and telegraphers, women soldiers and scouts, camp life, and an authentic travelogue. There are also just a lot of good anecdotes. As I think I initially wrote, this is a unisex work.
Thanks for your interest,
Kay Larson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 1st, 2007 03:20 am |
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wags6817
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Thank you very much for the information and I look forward to purchasing those books, just have to get caught on the ones I am reading now.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 2nd, 2007 02:48 am |
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