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"Historical fiction based on journals and correspondence of William Stone, Union veteran and head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Aiken, South Carolina, during Reconstruction. Major Stone's story involves violence, prejudice, politics, compassion, justice, and romance. The Ku Klux Klan, freed blacks, Edgefield plantation owners, and Quaker educators all play roles"--Provided by publisher.… (altro)
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With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
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To Sue, my guiding light and love of my life.
Johnson, Sue
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Late on a Sunday afternoon in February 1858, a fifteen-year-old boy sat down at the kitchen table in a modest farmhouse in central Massachusetts, lit a candle against the gathering winter darkness, dipped his pen into a bottle of ink, proudly opened a new notebook to its first page, and wrote, "Very pleasant and quite warm.
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Holmes's words might very well have served as the epitaph for William Stone.
"Historical fiction based on journals and correspondence of William Stone, Union veteran and head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Aiken, South Carolina, during Reconstruction. Major Stone's story involves violence, prejudice, politics, compassion, justice, and romance. The Ku Klux Klan, freed blacks, Edgefield plantation owners, and Quaker educators all play roles"--Provided by publisher.
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