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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... Charlie leaned close, heard nothing but Enfields and artillery. He looked around helplessly for aid. “Don't move ... Charlie's left ear. He felt the heave of tears again, a shoving of the breastbone from inside, like a violent hand ...
... Charlie. He shook the man gently, then with increasing urgency. “Don't move, don't you move, don't you move!” The gray-coated soldiers who had flowed past him were fleeing backward now, and one grabbed Charlie beneath his arm, pulled ...
... Charlie and the man rose higher, and he seemed uninterested in stopping their flight. The noise began to hum like a ... Charlie's mother walked through a sea of campfires, bearing in her hands a cup spilling with spring-fresh water. He ...
... Charlie, and the uniforms would be splendid, I think. After fifty years and all that, old comrades.” “I don't have my uniform,” said Charlie. “I threw it out after the war, burned it with kerosene in the backyard. You could get a ...
... Charlie, just a boy, but a deadly shot with his Spencer rifle. (Govan's Brigade had captured half a dozen or more breech-loading repeaters during the Battle of Chattanooga, and Charlie had earned one.) “Go, boys!” Charlie cried. A ...
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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 |