A Thousand Miles to Alabama
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In this book of historical fiction the central character, a released Civil War prisoner, thinks and speaks in the vernacular of his time and region. His purpose, besides getting home, is to deliver a letter and brooch to the widow of his best friend, who died in his arms in prison. The action follows him as he walks over a thousand miles home to Alabama, meeting kind strangers and experiencing rejection, hunger and the brutality of bushwhackers along the way. Through it all he walks steadily toward home and finds romance in an unexpected place.
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Since her first autobiography before age ten, Nelle Clegg Watson has never stopped writing. An Auburn University, graduate her works have appeared in National Gardener, Upper Room, American Forests, Reminisce, Orphic Lute, Reader’s Digest and others. She served as editor of Steps and the award winning garden club magazine Hortensia. For A Thousand Miles to Alabama she gathered facts from the Alabama Archives and History, family members, books and articles on the Civil War. She traveled to museums, the notorious prison at Andersonville, Georgia and the battle site at Nashville, Tennessee. She and her husband, Hilton, live in Millbrook, Alabama.