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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... eyes blink once, his tongue come out as if searching for water or speech. Then his eyes opened wider and stayed that way, dust already settling on the glazing eyeballs, and the tongue, covered with the words of its own blood, did not ...
... eyes, kind hands, toys for one too old for play, too young for Manassas. He had lined them, small and heavy, across his sheets, dreamed victory and glories. Now he held his wounded soldier in the morning's sharp light, turning it ...
... eyes when the time had come. He didn't have much strength, but he'd used all he had to hit Charlie. “Too bad I'm not General Sherman,” said Charlie. The soldier in the snow laughed but seemed as if he might cry. Charlie noticed that the ...
... eyes when we loved. My heart will ever he yours. Now I must post this in haste for they are calling me to the ship, and I cannot know what will happen next. But as I sail, I will love you, and some day I will come hack, and we will ...
... 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, indifferent soldiers nearby along with the first ...
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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 |