Gray & Blue - Wood, Anthony
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He took an oath to fight. He just didn't realize it was for the wrong reasons. Steaming South on the Mississippi River to enlist in the Confederate Army, Lummy Tullos leaves behind the life he always wanted. With little training and even less experience as a soldier, he joins the 27th Louisiana Volunteer Infantry to face the approaching Yankee juggernaut marching on Vicksburg. His singular purpose is to protect home and family from the blue invader. Enduring heat, cold, horrific assaults, sickness, privation, and starvation through a forty-seven day siege, it is his comrades in the…mehr

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He took an oath to fight. He just didn't realize it was for the wrong reasons. Steaming South on the Mississippi River to enlist in the Confederate Army, Lummy Tullos leaves behind the life he always wanted. With little training and even less experience as a soldier, he joins the 27th Louisiana Volunteer Infantry to face the approaching Yankee juggernaut marching on Vicksburg. His singular purpose is to protect home and family from the blue invader. Enduring heat, cold, horrific assaults, sickness, privation, and starvation through a forty-seven day siege, it is his comrades in the trenches-gray and blue alike-who give him hope... until tragedy strikes him to the core. With death at every turn and little prospect of ever seeing home again, he begins to question his commitment, his faith, and the nation for which he fights, suffers, and kills. How can he honor his oath to the Confederacy when he no longer believes in the cause it defends? Lummy pushes forward until the battle for Vicksburg is lost. As he marches with his defeated army under the conquering Union flag, he comes to realize that the greatest surrender will be within.
Autorenporträt
Anthony Wood grew up in historic Natchez, Mississippi, fueling a life-long love of history. Not long after high school, he lived in Alaska for several years but returned to the South and ministered nearly three decades among the poor, homeless, and incarcerated. Leading an effort to plant urban churches inspired him to co-author Up Close and Personal: Embracing the Poor about his work in the Memphis inner city as well as authoring a number of articles and stories about his ministry.Anthony is a member of Turner's Battery re-enactment living history group, the Civil War Round Table of Arkansas, and serves as President of White County Creative Writers. His writing has won a number of awards, including a Will Rogers Medallion Award for his short story, "Not So Long in the Tooth" in 2021. A number of his works have been published in Saddlebag Dispatches, The Vault of Terror, The Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry, Writer's Monthly, and several anthologies.Anthony was inducted into the Arkansas Writer's Hall of Fame in June 2024. He also serves as Managing Editor for the award-winning western magazine, Saddlebag Dispatches. Anthony enjoys roaming and researching historical sites, photographing nature and wildlife, camping and kayaking on the Mississippi River, and being with family. Anthony and his wife, Lisa, live in Conway, Arkansas. Find Anthony at anthonywoodauthor.com or on Facebook and Instagram.