''Sarn't Jamey Doan''

About the Book

Follow Jamey Doan an Iowa farm boy, skilled with the rifle his gunsmith father made for him. He is thrown into the maelstrom of the Civil War in the west along the Mississippi River. His enemy at times is his family, a Mississippi cousin and uncle fighting for the Confederacy. His first battle is the little known northern most battle of the Civil War Athens Missouri. He battles his way down river to Vicksburg, fighting as a sniper and skirmisher in the Western Rifles. Jamey grasps the meaning of war and fights ferociously. He becomes a man of war but is still a boy when he finds love and the mysteries of women. This author leaves his readers anxiously awaiting the sequel which will follow, starting at Vicksburg, where this volume stops, as the Union Army moves south.

About the Author

Jim Brannon was born and raised in Fort Madison, Iowa, son of Wilma and Ernest. He spent four years in the Navy serving on diesel submarines, and almost three years in the USAR Combat Engineers during the Viet Nam years. He started writing while he was working in the chemical industry as a mechanical unit supervisor. He has published a full length novel entitled Sloane in hard cover and short stories for periodicals. His passions consist of his patriotic love of this country, the northern Wisconsin woods, motorcycles, gun collecting and hunting with conventional guns, black powder and the bow.