The Letter Writer: A Reporter's Civil War Journey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781494849931)

Growing up in 1850s Alabama, Cooper Waterman longed to become a man of letters - a lofty dream for a handicapped lad who was poor and fatherless, and left school at 13 to become a shoeshine boy. But with his imagination, a notebook and a stub of a pencil, he rose to become a newspaper reporter, eventually going off to serve as a Civil War correspondent. Covering an epic American struggle, Cooper survives the siege of Vicksburg and rides through bloody cavalry battles with the formidable General Nathan Bedford Forrest, taking time along the way to write letters to home for hundreds of wounded or illiterate soldiers. Compelling, ringing with authenticity and told through the eyes of a southern journalist, The Letter Writer is a Civil War story remarkably different than any you may have ever read.

Author: James Welsh
ISBN-10: 1494849933
ISBN-13: 9781494849931
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2014
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.75d