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The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War
ISBN: 0312426933
Title: The Judas Field: A Novel of the Civil War
Author: Howard Bahr
KDL Description:
Cass Wakefield, a Civil War veteran, agrees to accompany a neighbor, 54-year-old terminally ill widow Alison Sansing, to Tennessee to recover the bodies of her father and brother, killed at Franklin. As they travel north, Cass’s memories return with painful vividness, culminating as he walks over the scene of his army’s disastrous defeat.
Amazon Description:
After returning from the Civil War, Cass Wakefield means to live out the rest of his days in his hometown in Mississippi. But when a childhood friend asks him to accompany her to Franklin, Tennessee, to recover the bodies of her father and brother from the battlefield where they died, Cass cannot refuse. As they make their way north in the company of two of Cass’s brothers-in-arms, memories of the war emerge with overwhelming vividness. Before long the group has assembled on the haunted ground of Franklin, where past and present—the legacy of war and the narrow hope of redemption—will draw each of them to a painful reckoning.