Occupy Savannah Sequel to Coffee Bluff

By Willard White

In late December 1864, Sherman's troops occupy Savannah which is full of Confederate spies. Luke, Chester and Julia collide once again. Luke is a Union spy with a simple mission: Spread the mis-information that Sherman's will next move on Augusta and Charleston. This will have the effect of consolidating Confederate militias in those two cities and leaving the center of South Carolina open for a rapid move to Sherman's actual target; Columbia.
Luke discovers Chester and Julia attempting to spy on a Union strategy meeting. He has a decision to make.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willard White
• Release date: Mar 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310404405

Willard White

I've been a service station attendant, steel building erector, combat helicopter pilot (1,200 hours in Viet Nam) instructor pilot in airplanes and helicopters, ambulance helicopter pilot, and most recently a corporate pilot with approximately 200 North Atlantic crossings. I started writing 12 years ago while at my job. Well, I didn't write books in the cockpit, but while traveling to my airplane on the airlines and while sitting in hotel rooms on standby. You might find my job description interesting; I worked seven days on and seven days off. Day one normally was devoted to traveling on the airlines to my airplane and meeting my crew (First Officer and Flight Attendant). We would fly our airplane anywhere in the world for five days, and on day seven would leave our Gulfstream where-ever it happened to be and airline to our homes for our seven days off. It was the best job in the world, and I had plenty of forced isolation time to write.

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Occupy Savannah

By Willard White

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Copyright 2014 Willard White

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This book is dedicated to Diane, who is very patient and keeps an open mind.

Occupy Savannah

December 27th, 1864:

Where'd you get the Confederate dollars? the barber asked.

Believe it or not, there's a regular market down in the camp. You can trade anything for anything, I said, There is an exchange rate for U.S. dollars to confederate dollars, and since I don't expect to live long enough to need U. S. dollars, I traded. If I survive, I'll get my next pay in Charleston.

I see, he said noncommittally and commenced stropping his razor on a strap attached to the wall.

I eyed his face carefully for signs of success. I didn't just come into town for a bath, a haircut and a shave. Savannah was full of spies and my mission was to convince the Johnnies that Sherman's next objectives were Augusta and Charleston. We had concluded that a barber shop on Broughton Street was the very best place to start a rumor - a rumor that would reach the top of the Confederate military command.

I'd already had my warm bath in a copper tub and my first haircut in at least two months. It had only been a week since we'd marched into town and I wasn't entirely confident that this barber wouldn't just slice my throat with the razor he was so carefully sharpening.

You wouldn't cut my throat with that thing, would you? I asked.

He had no sense of humor; at least not where Yanks were concerned. Without smiling he said, And if I did? What would you do?

I discovered my own sense of humor had departed. After what I had been through the last six weeks, getting into a fight with a barber in Savannah seemed a silly thing to do. A gentleman came into the shop and opened his mouth to speak to the barber, then he noticed my blue uniform pants sticking out from under my striped bib. He closed his mouth and took a seat in a chair along the wall to wait his turn for a haircut and watched us closely. "I would really prefer to just get a