A Thousand Miles to Alabama - Hardcover

by Nelle Clegg Watson (Author)

In this book of historical fiction the central character, a released Civil War prisoner, thinks and speaks in the vernacular of his time and region. His purpose, besides getting home, is to deliver a letter and brooch to the widow of his best friend, who died in his arms in prison. The action follows him as he walks over a thousand miles home to Alabama, meeting kind strangers and experiencing rejection, hunger and the brutality of bushwhackers along the way. Through it all he walks steadily toward home and finds romance in an unexpected place.