R. F. Whaley

Someone's Son, Someone's Brother R. F. Whaley

This action driven epic carries the reader through the CivilWar years 1863-65 from the unique perspective of combat engineers.? The story moves between the fighting andlives of these soldiers and flashbacks to their former lives in aristocraticPrussia and starving Ireland. The reader is drawn into bloody and realisticbattles, into life in an upscale brothel, and into the hearts and souls ofsoldiers.? It is an intricate story oflove and despair, sagacity and folly, courage and cowardice. Well-researched and historically accurate, the reader cansense the hope and dread of the characters as they bond together in the face ofadversity. The life and times of small towns and cities, pastoral scenes, andwar provide the landscape as the characters move through tumultuous anddesperate times.