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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... shot and the distant, then closer, crump of Napoleons and Parrott guns. Charlie knew he must stand and go for help, but the space above his kneeling form held a sea of fire, thousands of bullets, fused balls, shrapnel ripping through ...
... 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 wailing scream rose from both sides of ...
... shot him, he failed to die, and he sat up in the slush and begged for mercy. The sergeant was ordered to finish him with a pistol, but it misfired. Then the squad had to reload and shoot the prisoner all over again. Charlie watched it ...
... shot at Ringgold Gap in late November and having healed poorly. Where the ball had plowed his face like a fertile field, no beard would grow. Bob Rainey never showed fear, never seemed to reflect on anything that gave him pause, much ...
... shot it. Charlie felt himself sicken at the small strange animal in its death thrashings and had walked out of the firelight and vomited. Jack comforted his friend and apologized. I was rash, he said. I've been rash in my life. It was ...
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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 |