Product Description
by Frank P. Slaughter (Author)
"Will Castor serves in Battery D, 1st Regiment, Michigan Light Artillery, sending shells into the ranks of Confederate infantry whenever he's ordered to do so. When his unit's position is overrun at the Battle of Chickamauga, Will witnesses and commits ghastly horrors to survive the day. Separated from his army and incapacitated with a broken leg, he hooks up with a Confederate deserter who takes him home to Tennessee and shelters him.... Haunted by the traumas of the war, the wilds present Will with an unexpected opportunity for redemption-though it may prove to be an even greater battle than the one at Chickamauga.
"Slaughter is a fastidious writer, summoning the worlds of Civil War artillery and the 19th-century lumber industry in all their gritty details.... Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the story is its postwar period and its depiction of Will's PTSD. The reader feels great empathy for this broken veteran, stumbling about in an era when the language for such aftereffects had not yet been established.
"An ornate, gruesome, and rigorously crafted Civil War novel." - Kirkus Reviews
Author Biography
A lifelong resident of Michigan, Frank has spent many enjoyable hours sailing on the Great Lakes and flying over them as a private pilot. He is a gun corporal in the Battery D first Michigan Light Artillery reenactor group and produces a weekly radio show on Interlochen Public Radio. He and his wife of 27 years, Maurine, live in the northern Michigan countryside with their three terriers where they grow apples, raspberries and Saskatoons. Slaughter is also the author of "South of Superior."
