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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... night, returned from heaven or hell to share secrets with the honeysuckle or verbena. Time wore on him, slumped his shoulders, turned his hands parchment thin and mottled. Mrs. Knight whistled from the kitchen, but not to a dog, not to ...
... NIGHT CAME, AND WITH it a few flurries, and Charlie sat before the campfire, sipping coffee, the tin cup so heated it almost burned his fingertips. “Aye, God, they orta give us the victory this afternoon,” said Duncan McGregor. He ...
... night, an ache that began deep inside the earth. “I never thought we'd get the spirit back, but Old Joe's done it,” said Bob Rainey, an older man with a gray-flecked beard. “I'm near about ready to send some bad news to a few Yankee ...
... Always has,” said Charlie. He said nothing more, and though his mind drifted over his mother and Martha, he thought mostly of Sarah. When night came, he always did. July 9, 1861 rotted tree limb. One end had dissolved A Distant Flame 15.
... Night was very near now, and a whip-poor-will sang his three notes relentlessly, deeper in the forest. The boys had spread their bedrolls in the clearing, and eaten beans, peeled waxed paper back from dried beef that Mrs. Dockery had ...
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21 | |
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 |