A Distant FlameUniversity of Georgia Press, 01.04.2011 - 328 Seiten 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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... Charlie and the man rose higher, and he seemed uninterested in stopping their flight. The noise began to hum like a distant storm. “Look down there,” said Charlie. They looked below them, and the gently rolling green countryside broke ...
... Charlie looked down the lines and saw hundreds—no, thousands—of men engaged in the frontal assault. Some people from Dalton, even ladies, had come out to watch, and they stamped against the cold up on the high ridge behind the lines ...
... Charlie watched it pensively, saying nothing, feeling as if each thud of lead had wrecked his own heart. NIGHT CAME, AND WITH it a few flurries, and Charlie sat before the campfire, sipping coffee, the tin cup so heated it almost burned ...
... looked at Charlie with kindness, affection. “Some of them boys ought to have had their sweet arses kicked for puttin' rocks in them snowballs, eh, Charlie?” “They got hard feelings,” said Charlie quietly. The cold seemed blacker than ...
... seemed unmoved. Charlie had sat with his mother and Tom, eyes sharp upon the open coffin lying below the pulpit. He scanned the stained glass windows, especially the one with Jesus on the cross, and a thunderstorm breaking around him ...
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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 |