Stone Mountain: The Granite Sentinel (Signed Copy)

Coletti, George D. N.; George D.N. Coletti

ISBN 10: 0976489562 / ISBN 13: 9780976489566

Published by Private Printing, 2010

About this Item

Gray cloth-boards hardback with an unclipped dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. Signed on the title page with absolutely no further inscription, by the author. This copy has a "read-only-once" look & feel. Unopened CD remains affixed to the rear end-page. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy cardboard box. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stone Mountain: The Granite Sentinel (Signed Copy)
• Publisher: Private Printing
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976489562
• ISBN 13: 9780976489566
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Civil War
  • Georgia

About this title

Synopsis

Buck Jernigan, his wife Betty Gail and their twins, Norman and Polly, live in the small hamlet of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The Civil War reshapes their environment from a thriving tourist and granite Mecca to a war-ravaged county. Although the Jernigans are pro-Union their family becomes entangled in the horrors of the Civil War. Norman transforms from a boy into a man as he attends Georgia Military Institute and shoulders his first musket as a solider on Civil War battlefields from Resaca to Savannah in defense of his beloved state. Polly elopes to Savannah with pro-Union Congressman Joshua Hill’s son, Legare. As the wife of a soldier she brews herbal medicine for the hospital in Savannah and ultimately faces the terror of an occupied city without her husband. From July 18th through November 16th of 1864 Union troops raid farms, destroy homes, and burn the City buildings of Stone Mountain. They leave the depot, the water tank and the railroad tracks in ruins with little Confederate opposition. With only forty men left in town by mid-1864, the odds are not in their favor. But with every great challenge, there must rise great men to defend their land and their beliefs. During a time of great change throughout the nation one family plays its part in the great war around them, forever to be changed themselves. The book has 637 endnotes.