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 and the man rose higher, and he seemed uninterested in stopping ... MERRILL LAY IN the mahogany four-poster bed, wrapped in a clot of damp ... Charlie raised the window, and a pleasant breeze lifted his white hair, fluffed it ...
... Charlie. He smiled warmly at Barry. Yes. He was most certainly the right one to buy the Eagle. A good decision, one ... Merrill. Charlie dressed as Barry walked with morning stealth down the stairs and out the front door, the silver bell ...
... Merrill's Brigade could turn the right flank, they might send the Western Army back into the center of the lines where Johnston's men waited. Jaws of a winter-spun trap. “Ah, Charlie, it's pretty,” said Duncan McGregor. “It's the first ...
... Charlie, just a boy, but a deadly shot with his Spencer rifle. (Govan's ... Merrill's Brigade, having failed to turn the flank, attacked straight ... Charlie looked down the lines and saw hundreds—no, thousands—of men engaged in the ...
... Merrill?” asked Bob Rainey. When he called him that, Charlie felt a closeness to the older man. “We wouldn't have you spent out over a snowball what was built around a stone, now would we, young Merrill?” “We would not,” said Charlie ...
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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 |