The Hogs of Cold Harbor: The Civil War Saga of Pvt. Johnny Hess, CSA: Based on the actual war diary of Confederate Private Soldier John H. Hess (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781453871102)

American author born 29 November 1947 in Dachau, Germany, and raised in Manchester, Georgia, USA. He earned his BA in World Literature at Columbus State University, GA, in 1972. He received his MA in American Literature at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, 1985. Richard Fulgham determined at sixteen to write the great American Novel and many believe he did so in this extrapolation of a Southern soldier's actual diary. It is a day by day recreation of the rebel soldier's stint in the Confederate army, seeing action in thirteen bloody battles during four major campaigns. The book is also an accurate, graphic and impeccably researched history of the 29th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company B, Corse's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreets Corps. Late Pulitzer Prize winning author Norman Mailer read "The Hogs of Cold Harbor" and sent the author a handwritten endorsement upon reading the Whitmore Press version in 2005. During America's war with Vietnam, Fulgham served on board the US Navy warship USS Raleigh (LPD-1). His father was a paratrooper with the 101st Screaming Eagles in World War II. His great great grandfather fought as a private in one of Georgia's infantry brigades. Richard Fulgham's war was the struggle to survive as an independent writer from 1972 to 1997, during which he wrote regularly for newspapers, regional publications and national magazines. He published his first book in the year 2000, a popular history book of southwest Virginia entitled "Appalachian Genesis: The Clinch River Valley from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Frontier Era" (TN, Overmountain Press, 2000).