A Southern Yarn

Volume I of The Alternative History Trilogy on the Civil War. Speculates on what might have happened if Lee had been able to spring the trap he set for Grant on the North Anna River in May of 1864. 1990 Nominee John Esten Cooke Award for the best fiction about the South or The War Between the States 1990 Nominee Virginia College Store Association Award for literary excellence

R. W. Richards is a celebrated high school AP Government teacher and Debate Coach with Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia. He has been honored as Coach of the Year, in 2011, by the Virginia High School League, and in the same year, received Educator of the Year Award with the National Association of Speech, Debate, and Drama Coaches (Region II). In 2002, The Washington Post presented him with the Agnes Meyer Teacher of the Year Award. He has appeared on more than 80 television and radio shows while on tour with his Alternative History Trilogy. Ron and his wife live in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where their 4 children and 10 grandchildren love to come and listen to him spinning yarns .