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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... Cleburne stood to one side holding a chessman and smiling. Charlie felt fear release him. Then he was not moving, and the Federals had gained, were now spilling him over the field, but none dared touch him. They gave way as he rode the ...
... private in Govan's Brigade of Cleburne's Division of Hardee's Corps of General Joseph Johnston's Army of Tennessee. They called themselves Merrill's Brigade as a camp joke because no one had known. A DISTANT FLAME: Winter, 1864.
... Cleburne's Division just before battle, and during combat he seemed un— afraid, firing at Yankees, dropping them from stunning distances, until Duncan McGregor, a bantam whose parents had come from Scotland twenty years before, had ...
... Cleburne's Division paused for the execution of Private Evan Cason. Evan had gotten as far as Smyrna. When they caught him, he had a pone of cornbread, two knives, one without a handle, an empty canteen, and a kepi caked with dried ...
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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 |