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Daniel's Garden
Daniel's Garden
Daniel's Garden
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It's June 1862, the second summer of the Civil War. The battle of Shiloh has already claimed 4,000 casualties and 33 regiments have already left Boston for the war-front. President Lincoln has given Massachusetts a quota to fill - 300,000 more are needed at once!

Despite the war raging around him, Daniel Stuart couldn't care less. He's a rich kid just trying to get through his freshman term at Harvard. What does it matter when he's worried about passing "Paradise Lost" exams? Well, his three closest college friends definitely have soldier glory on their minds. Andrew urges Daniel to attend a recruitment rally. Matthew goes along with his feisty brother, and David finds a spiritual reason to join the Federal army.

Meanwhile, Daniel's supposedly ideal home life isn't so rosy. His older brother has career plans for him to become a lawyer, and his mother also urges him to take responsibility for his life. Daniel blows them off by escaping to his garden. Only a young Irish maid seems to understand his turmoil over his life decisions.

Should he stay and commit to a dull career path as a lawyer? Or, should he follow his college friends to war?

What would you choose?

LanguageEnglish
PublisherMeg North
Release dateOct 5, 2011
ISBN9781465827982
Daniel's Garden
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Meg North

New England author and historian Meg North is a seven-year active member of the Maine Historical Society and Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Her specialty is New England history in the mid-1800s Civil War era. For four years, she appeared as a Civil War re-enactor and newsletter publisher with the 3rd Maine Union Regiment. She also attended the National Honors Society conference in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 2004, delivering a highly acclaimed paper on the Civil War. While living in Gettysburg, she completed her first Civil War novel, “Daniel’s Garden.” As a ten-year Portland, Maine resident, North has given historical tours to thousands of visitors and features local historical buildings in her work. Meg also contributes to other New England historical sites, including Walden Pond and the Thoreau Society, Alcott’s Orchard House, Ralph Waldo Emerson's house, the Old Manse, the House of the Seven Gables, Melville’s Arrowhead Museum, the Poe Society, and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society. She also generously contributes to numerous historical and literary organizations, including Deerfield Village, Old Sturbridge Village, the Charles Dickens Fellowship, the Bronte Society, the Jane Austen Society of North America, the Victorian Society in America, and Historic New England. She passionately supports the societies and museums dedicated to the brilliant writers and thinkers of the 19th century.

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