Will O' The Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense
Action and Treachery in America's Civil War.

Polarizing, fire-eating discourse, propaganda, and aversion to reason bred secession madness in Charleston, S.C. and sold rebellion to a population with virtually nothing to gain and everything to lose. Men who should have known better and had become inured to the abomination of human bondage failed to step up. As Southern nationalists raced into Civil War, blockade runner Jack Holmes and wealthy Charleston shipping magnate, George A. Trenholm, do what they can to sustain their city and the Confederacy. Their actions and experiences result in a sweeping adventure story played out on both the land and sea. With the outcome of the war obvious, Jack Holmes and George Trenholm conspire to steal the Confederate gold as Jefferson Davis flees a burning Richmond. The two men accept their responsibility for what proved to be a misguided and tragic rebellion and seek to adapt and redeem themselves in a post-slavery South.
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Will O' The Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense
Action and Treachery in America's Civil War.

Polarizing, fire-eating discourse, propaganda, and aversion to reason bred secession madness in Charleston, S.C. and sold rebellion to a population with virtually nothing to gain and everything to lose. Men who should have known better and had become inured to the abomination of human bondage failed to step up. As Southern nationalists raced into Civil War, blockade runner Jack Holmes and wealthy Charleston shipping magnate, George A. Trenholm, do what they can to sustain their city and the Confederacy. Their actions and experiences result in a sweeping adventure story played out on both the land and sea. With the outcome of the war obvious, Jack Holmes and George Trenholm conspire to steal the Confederate gold as Jefferson Davis flees a burning Richmond. The two men accept their responsibility for what proved to be a misguided and tragic rebellion and seek to adapt and redeem themselves in a post-slavery South.
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Will O' The Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense

Will O' The Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense

by Roger Newman
Will O' The Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense

Will O' The Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense

by Roger Newman

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Action and Treachery in America's Civil War.

Polarizing, fire-eating discourse, propaganda, and aversion to reason bred secession madness in Charleston, S.C. and sold rebellion to a population with virtually nothing to gain and everything to lose. Men who should have known better and had become inured to the abomination of human bondage failed to step up. As Southern nationalists raced into Civil War, blockade runner Jack Holmes and wealthy Charleston shipping magnate, George A. Trenholm, do what they can to sustain their city and the Confederacy. Their actions and experiences result in a sweeping adventure story played out on both the land and sea. With the outcome of the war obvious, Jack Holmes and George Trenholm conspire to steal the Confederate gold as Jefferson Davis flees a burning Richmond. The two men accept their responsibility for what proved to be a misguided and tragic rebellion and seek to adapt and redeem themselves in a post-slavery South.

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BN ID: 2940162458715
Publisher: W & B Publishers
Publication date: 07/02/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
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About the Author

Roger Newman, M.D. is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Maas Endowed Chair for Reproductive Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other than a two-year fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Newman has practiced his entire career in Charleston at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has enjoyed significant academic success as author of more than 160 scientific publications, and as national president of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Beginning in 2014, Dr. Newman began writing fiction and has subsequently published a series of medical suspense novels entitled Occam's Razor, Two Drifters, and most recently, What Becomes which was long listed for the 2018 Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Award. Dr. Newman is also an author for the award winning and extremely successful When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads, 4th Ed. published by HarperCollins. This is Dr. Newman’s first effort at historical fiction exploring the forces that bred secession leading to Civil War in his hometown of Charleston and the roles played by the shipbuilder/blockade runner Captain Jack Whitesides Holmes and the shipping magnate/financier George Alfred Trenholm who ultimately became the Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederacy. Dr. Newman continues to live in Charleston, is married, has 3 grown children, and happens to be a distant relative of both George A. Trenholm and Jack Whitesides Holmes.
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