Solomon Ramsdell: A Novel of the Civil War Era (The Ramsdell Family)

He survived Andersonville . . . and then his trials really began. Solomon Ramsdell brought the love of his life to his new farm in pioneer Michigan, then the Civil War threatened all they were building together. He heeded the call to the Union army, was captured and imprisoned, then returned to Jennette to find his life forever changed. This heartfelt novel explores the real people hinted at in the historical record. Though Solomon's story is partially told in the companion novel ROSETTE, this volume reveals what he must have suffered and what might have been his rescue. "Touching without being sentimental, SOLOMON RAMSDELL is a journey through trauma and grief that finds a happy ending not far from where it started."

CINDY RINAMAN MARSCH enjoys living and writing in rural Western Pennsylvania. This fiction series began with the journal of a young woman lost to history, whose spirit has opened a new era of creativity in the author's life.

BETSY MARSCH specializes in portrait and figure painting on reacted copper panels. Since taking her BA in painting, aesthetics, and philosophy from Union University (Jackson, TN), she has worked as a metal smith, artist, and art tutor while showing in solo and group exhibitions and giving talks on the practice and philosophy of art. In 2016 she attended a residency at the New York Academy of Art in lower Manhattan and in 2018 studied briefly under the nihonga painter Makoto Fujimura.