The Scott Boys: A Civil War Novel- Inspired by Actual Events - Softcover

Anderson, S. Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1663273553 ISBN 13: 9781663273550

Publisher: iUniverse, 2025

Synopsis

The Scott Boys was recognized as a Finalist for the AWA Hawthorne Prize; a Finalist for the Chanticleer Laramie Award for Americana Fiction; a Finalist for the IAW Book of the Years; received the Editors Choice Award from iUniverse; and a Distinguished Author designation from the International Impact Book Awards.
From East Tennessee, the Scott family faces Civil War conflicts. One brother and his son decide to fight for the Southern Cause, while four other brothers escape into Kentucky to join the Union Army, fighting against slavery and preserving the Union. The Scott family adheres to the Presbyterian faith as Covenanters, embracing Native American perspectives, combining those values to provide guidance through a most challenging time. The family members who remain in East Tennessee are subjected to suffering from the plundering bushwhackers who see the Scott family allegiance to the Union as cause for punishment. That retribution also applies to slaves with whom the Scotts live as farmers, loggers and millers, all working the land of others.<p> How THE SCOTT BOYS approach the decision to fight, how they react during events, and how they face the fears and the mental challenges of war are presented with the realization that none of us knows for certain what those feelings were like in 1860. Follow each brother through the war during battle, in prison, marching, and dealing with the harshness of exposure to the weather. Many of the characters portrayed are real life men and women. The locations are all actual.</p>

About this title

From the Inside Flap

The photo on the cover is one that I made at Andersonville Prison Cemetery. Over thirteen thousand men are buried there, all dying in just over fourteen months. The grave stone on the bottom left corner of the cover is that of my Great Great Grandfather's youngest brother, Robert Lafayette Scott. He was captured at the Battle of Big Creek, interred first at Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia, subsequently transferred to Camp Sumpter where he passed away from disease. He is grave number 776. The only brother to have died during the war.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1663273553
• ISBN 13: 9781663273550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298