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Overview
Imagine the presumably pacifist Quaker physician surviving the wilds of frontier Louisiana only to see his descendants marry into families of battle-hardened warriors. One survived being bayoneted nine times in the Revolutionary War; one was tomahawked to death in the Indian Wars, and his heart was eaten by the redskins to carry on his bravery; brothers served as Andrew Jackson's aides-de-camp at the Battle of New Orleans; and one was a seventeen-year-old marching off to the Civil War with his slave by his side. For a storyteller, this family is fertile ground, and for the reader, it is fascinating.
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- ISBN-13: 9781796023022
- ISBN-10: 1796023027
- Publisher: Xlibris Us
- Publish Date: March 2019
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.29 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.82 pounds
- Page Count: 110
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