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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... there.' In A Distant Flame, Mr. Williams takes us there, and it's a landscape that captures the heart.” ——ROBERT J. MRAZEK, author of Unholy Fire: A Novel oft/1e Civil War “A Distant Flame takes a sultry summer day in 1914 and weaves it ...
... there,” said Charlie. They looked below them, and the gently rolling green countryside broke into patches of field, stitched together with rail fencing. “There is a pattern to it.” “I don't see any pattern,” said the man. "I don't see ...
... there was a gap in their lines, but there was none, and when troops were moved to cover it, the Confederates rushed through, wailing their scream in a skin-shivering shriek that did not seem to penetrate Charlie's resolve. He kept ...
... there's nothing left but ashes like a fireplace.” “I never heard that. It's kind of sickening. When the Camak place burned, they said you could still sort of tell who everybody was, but it was a sickening thing. And that house was the ...
... there's going to be a big battle in Virginia. Everybody's saying that the war will be over by August. My daddy said he couldn't understand all this over a bunch of niggers. It's only people like the Sheltons and the Holmeses that even ...
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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 |