A Distant FlameUniversity of Georgia Press, 1.04.2011 г. - 328 страници A young Confederate sharpshooter, Charlie Merrill, has already suffered many losses in his life, but he must find a way to endure--and to grow--if he is to survive the battles he and his fellow soldiers face in July 1864 at the gates of Atlanta. From the opening salvos on Rocky Face Ridge in northwest Georgia through the trials of Resaca and Kennesaw Mountain, Charlie faces the overwhelming force of the Union army and a growing uncertainty about his place in the war. Framed by a story that finds the elderly Charlie giving a speech on the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta, A Distant Flame portrays love, violence, and regret about wrong paths taken. With an attention to historical detail that brings the past powerfully to the present, Philip Lee Williams reveals Charlie's journey of redemption from the Civil War's fields of fire to the slow steps of old age. |
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... field—horses and men, sweat, fear, gunpowder, blood, bone, excrement. The dying man's hair hung from his face in black curls. Shrieking minié balls displaced the air near Charlie's left ear. He felt the heave of tears again, a shoving ...
... field, but none dared touch him. They gave way as he rode the highway of screaming fire. He rose above tree level, then came back down, avoiding bristling spikes of abatis that drew scars around the city. He drifted above the smoke then ...
... field, stitched together with rail fencing. “There is a pattern to it.” “I don't see any pattern,” said the man. "I don't see any pattern at all.” Charlie laughed and saw the world blue as water, green with renewal. Tree crests brushed ...
... Her eyes were pale blue-gray, sky against new snow, but they could shade darker when she was troubled or ill. She could not abide the fields of death, denied certainties, spoke of Boston's sacred and sun-stained spires A Distant Flame 5.
... field, no beard would grow. Bob Rainey never showed fear, never seemed to reflect on anything that gave him pause, much less trouble. He was from Carolina, he said. Charlie thought it was South Carolina, which was odd, since most boys ...
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April 19 1864 | 26 |
July 26 1861 | 36 |
July 22 1914 | 43 |
April 20May 8 1864 | 47 |
May 16 1862 | 166 |
June 226 1864 | 172 |
Summer and Fall 1862 | 191 |
July 221914 | 200 |
Winter 18621863 | 205 |
June 27 1864 | 217 |
July 22 1914 | 226 |
July 2122 1864 | 234 |
July 27 1861 | 59 |
July 28 1861 | 63 |
May 813 1864 | 68 |
July 22 1914 | 83 |
AugustSeptember 1861 | 88 |
May 1419 1864 | 97 |
July 22 1914 | 116 |
OctoberDecember 1861 | 123 |
JanuaryMarch 1862 | 131 |
May 2231 1864 | 140 |
July 23September 1 1864 | 251 |
July 22 1914 | 265 |
July 221914 500530 PM | 271 |
July 221914 545630 PM | 276 |
July 221914 630930 PM | 284 |
July 221914 930Midnight | 297 |
November 1918 | 301 |
Authors Note | 305 |