Hunter Jones Joins The Civil War
Book Description
From the beginning, the working title of this series was: Huckleberry Finn gets sucked up into the Civil War. Like Huck, Hunter Jones is a precocious, wily pre-teen who gets in and out of trouble as easily as Mark Twin's Huckleberry Finn did.
The first book (Missouri) opens as Hunter Jones watches his dad get killed by a silky riverboat gambler, as they get ready to switch boats at Des ...
MoreFrom the beginning, the working title of this series was: Huckleberry Finn gets sucked up into the Civil War. Like Huck, Hunter Jones is a precocious, wily pre-teen who gets in and out of trouble as easily as Mark Twin's Huckleberry Finn did.
The first book (Missouri) opens as Hunter Jones watches his dad get killed by a silky riverboat gambler, as they get ready to switch boats at Des Arc Arkansas, trying to escape up the White River to Batesville Arkansas, then onto St. Louis Missouri and the safety of the north, just as the Civil War is about to erupt.
As an indigent with no means of support, he is tossed off the boat, chased by an alcoholic town sheriff and forced to hide in the woods, surviving the best he can, until he gets shot and captured by soldiers from the newly formed Confederate Army.
General Thompson tells him, "If you are going to eat my beans, you are going to fight my war." With that Hunter becomes a non-combatant in the new Confederate Army - a drummer and step-and-fetch-it for the general. It's in that role where he gets kicked in the head by a mule and goes into a coma. Two old crusty veterans of the Crimean and Mexican Wars befriend him. Believing that Hunter can hear even though he doesn't respond, they read to him daily from old copies of battlefield newspapers.
With his fertile imagination Hunter dreams he is living the events that are being read to him. Even though he and his story are fictional, the sad details, facts, figures and events of the Civil War are historically correct. Through his eyes the reader visits and experiences many "first" that changed or altered the direction of the Civil War, West of the Mississippi.
The Arkansas book - Hunter Jones Joins the Civil War (Arkansas) is all about Arkansas. We are with Hunter at the many battles that took place in Arkansas: Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Marks Mills, Poison Springs, Jenkins' Ferry, Devil's Backbone, Chalk Bluff and Ditch Bayou, just to name a few. We are with him at the capture of strategic ports like Helena, on the Mississippi, and Arkansas Post, on the Arkansas River. We are with him on the White River at Saint Charles and watch with him as the ironclad gunboat USS Mound City's boilers are blown up by the infamous Rebel cannon shot that went through a twenty-inch open porthole. We are with Hunter as he watches the 17 year-old, David Dodd, be hanged for spying. And we watch as General Lee signs the surrender documents at Appomattox. We watch as officers and soldiers, after the war, flee to Mexico and to Maximilian to regroup. We are with Hunter at the last battle of the Civil War, the Battle at Palmito Ranch in Texas and we are with Hunter as the last General (Chief Stand Watie) surrenders his troops two months after the surrender at Appomattox.
"Yes, my target audience is young readers, the next generation of Civil War historians, the new "keepers of the flame" but frankly anyone who loves to read and learn about the Civil War period will enjoy the Hunter Jones Joins the Civil War series."
Publisher | Jinx (Julian) Olson |
Binding | Kindle Edition (4 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | N/A |
ISBN-10 | B00865WW1Q |
Publication Date | 05/24/2012 |
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