Blackwater Betrayal: The Ruthless Treatment of Milton and Pensacola by the Confederacy. - Hardcover

Smith, Richard Kyle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1514417235 ISBN 13: 9781514417232

Publisher: Xlibris, 2015

Synopsis

Blackwater Betrayal tells the story of the ruthless, ill-conceived scorched earth actions by the Confederacy of Mill Town, or Milton, on the Blackwater River in the Western Florida Panhandle and the rest of the Pensacola Bay area. It tells the journey of John Geoghegan and how he became a successful blockade runner out of Pensacola. It is the story of Maria Moreno, the Spanish beauty whom John loves and almost loses. It is the story of John's friend Ben Jernigan, engaged to French-educated Amanda Rucker. Ben has no interest in war, so he hides in Yellow River swamp to avoid conscription but finds himself drawn out to help his friend Caleb, a slave who has killed in self-defense. He gets Amanda and her friends out of Milton and finally leaves the Southern ruins with John and his friends on his ship, the Carolina.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Kyle Smith is a retired Alabama CPA who was born and raised in Milton, Florida, and graduated from Samford University. After many years in public accounting, he served as finance director of the city of Hoover, Alabama (population 85,000), for sixteen years, where he received many awards for his financial reporting before retiring in 2001. Always a lover of words and local history, he puts these together in Blackwater Betrayal. This is his first work of historical fiction. He is an avid reader and writer. His great-great-great-grandfather Benjamin Jernigan built the water-powered sawmill that initiated Jernigan's Landing that became Mill Town and finally Milton. Richard presently lives in Milton, Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1514417235
• ISBN 13: 9781514417232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 142