The True Story Of Manse Jolly Part I: As told by The Hon. A.W. Fries

The True Story Of Manse Jolly, Part IIn 1862, two young South Carolina volunteers forged a brotherhood that stood the test of battle. One lived to tell their tale....Encompassing one of the most tumultuous decades in American history, this two-volume work of fiction tells the mostly true tale of a tough, rawboned farmer and a naive law graduate whose paths cross one uneventful day and whose fates are forever after intertwined.

Steve Biondo was born near Champaign, Illinois, in 1950. He graduated in journalism from Ohio University and holds an M.A. in English from Virginia Tech. Since 1974, he has written for newspapers in Virginia and South Carolina. A student of the Civil War, Biondo continues to live and write in Anderson, South Carolina.