From the Ashes of Glory
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And a battle did come, brief but deadly. Just before sunup one morning, the Rebel camp was startled awake by thundering hooves, spine chilling screams and shouts, and an onslaught of small arms fire. Frantic men grabbed for unloaded muskets that were stacked inside each tent. Many of the tents were knocked down, some burning, as terrified men scrambled to get out. Many of the Tennesseans were killed or wounded before the first shot could be fired in defense. They were outnumbered, probably four or five to one, as the full regiment of Union cavalry raced through the camp, firing their carbines and pistols, and inflicting deadly slashes with their sabers. Then it was all over as quickly as it had started. The Yankee bugler sounded retreat, and they were gone. During the last few minutes of the confusion, a few Rebels managed to get off some shots, killing seven of the invaders. One Yankee sergeant was pulled from his horse and captured. When the smoke cleared, and the last of the hoof beats were heard, more than 150 men had been severely wounded and 114 lay dead, most of whom had never fired a shot in anger. Somebody’s darling, somebody’s pride. Who’ll tell his mother where her boy died?
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In the uncertain days before a young America would be torn apart by a war between the states, a small boy named Morgan Montgomery is orphaned and sent to live with his mother’s wealthy relatives. They attend her funeral service and take the nine-year-old to live with them and grow up on their large plantation near Columbia, Tennessee.
As he begins to grow into manhood, tensions erupt to the boiling point. And for one frightening year after war breaks out, Morgan remains on the plantation, torn between his loyalty to his adopted family and his duty as a Southern man. After much trepidation, he decides to enlist in the Confederate army and ends up riding with Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The story tells of the hardships and tribulations of the war, and of his undying love for Charity, the young lady who helped nurse him back to health after he was severely wounded near her home in Mississippi. After the war’s end, they are separated by circumstance, and Morgan begins his quest to find her again.
Morgan, clinging desperately to the hope that he will find her, travels to Texas. He works his way across the state, surviving any way he can, hoping that his travels will reunite him with his lost Charity.
About the Author
Howard Goode’s curiosity has driven him to an eclectic variety of careers—soldier, ranch hand, crop-duster pilot, charter pilot, air-traffic controller, writer for the Federal Aviation Administration, and newspaper editor. Now retired, he lives on a forty-acre farm near Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, the home of David Crockett.