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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... Branton City Cemetery. The town had started burying its dead on the other side of the rails in the midnineties when the older section had filled its neighborhood of coffins. He watched as the light sifted through the higher branches of ...
... Branton, picking up a clacking speed, and he felt the thrum of its movement in his hand as he shaved. He watched himself in the small wallmounted oval mirror, turned his face between its lathered sides, saw his father in his cedar ...
... Branton, I felt the most perfect hopelessness that it is possible to know. My uncle and his stupid Specific shamed me, and his loud ways were no better than what I heard in Boston. I very nearly believe that I dreamed myself into your ...
... Branton Rifles back in Sixty-One had died from the heat in a boxcar two days out of town, and they buried him in a pasture on the side of the railroad tracks in North Carolina. The artillery could cut you in half. Or a picket or a ...
... Branton might need, and his father owned a hardware store. Since then, Charlie and Jack had been inseparable, swimming in the Branton River, which sliced through the town from north to south over a shoal of boulders large as carriages ...
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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 |