A Treasury of American Civil War Short Stories

About the Book

In this book, A TREASURY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SHORT STORIES, author Jeanne W. Knoop recounts her own personal version of an American Civil War Living History Site with narrative paintings encompassing all participating groups of men, women, and children during the war years. Soldiers of both North and South, privates to generals, nurses, civilians caught in the maelstrom of the violently moving whirlpool with little way out.

Together with chaplains and surgeons who tried to ease both the souls and physical well being of the men under their care. Teamsters, who traveled by wagons daily on the dirt roads delivering the arts of war along with necessary medicines from ships at the landing to the camps of the hundreds of thousands of troops. And yes . . . the travails of President Abraham Lincoln.

Names known and unknown, all did his or her part in the common struggle to prevail towards victory while living during the worst of times in our country since its founding less than one hundred years before.

We can all learn from their sacrifices and deaths, what we almost lost. Try never to forget what they did as men and women for us, our children, and grandchildren during those days when our country stood at the crossroads awaiting direction towards the future.

About the Author

Jeanne W. Knoop is an independent scholar whose great grandfather was a four year veteran of the American Civil War, having served with the Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry Regiment. She has a keen interest in her subject and his times. Articles by her have appeared in the scholarly journal, Civil War News. I FOLLOW THE COURSE, COME WHAT MAY was the author’s first book. Her second book of historical fiction, A TREASURY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SHORT STORIES has recently been published. Recently finished is a third work titled, THERE WERE LOTS OF TEARS; The Tragic Personal and Family Lives of Generals of the North and South During The American Civil War.