Charles E. IV Miller Boeken

These stories are offered as refl ections on the size, cause, scope and anguish of the Civil War, yet there is about them an intimacy of participation. It is difficult to capture both in a story of that war's magnitude without caricatures of the people or distortions of the events to accommodate the characters. Here they are, one author's offerings, possibly to put alongside the stories of Ambrose Bierce and William Faulkner.That would be an honor, for certain! The anecdotes are just that - relevant pieces of the overall war story.

If you read one of these stories, you have not read them all, as is the case in a communist country, where the state creates an ersatz society of act-alikes who conform to prevailing doctrines. Propaganda is the result. These stories are the result of a life of freedom in our great nation, where freedom, wever being put down by the State, is still the expression of man’s deepest desires to be like God. Insofar as the unique individual shares creative gifts, he shares one of God’s attributes. These stories, perhaps only one hopefully more, will exhult in that creative spirit.