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Shepherd's Song
Shepherd's Song
Shepherd's Song
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In March of 1863, the days were ticking down on Brenton Christie's medical leave. If he had been lucky, he would have been lounging by the cracker barrel back in Delaware, Ohio impressing his neighbors with stories of the real war. But the foot soldier had not smelled Lady Luck's perfume in a long time, and she was not courting him now.
Instead, General Ulysses Grant had shanghaied him as scout aboard the ironclad Cincinnati, and he was steaming up Deer Creek with Admiral David Porter's swamp navy to take Vicksburg by the back door. It should have been easy duty, but instead he encountered primeval forests, cannibalistic wildlife, and tenacious Confederates.
The Army of the Tennessee did not take winters off, and Grant had already lit the fuse to his Vicksburg juggernaut. Ensuing events catch Christie in the crossfire riding with Benjamin Grierson and he discovers a second war behind the front linesone fought by warriors without rifles who are just as idealistic and ruthless, comrades in enemy colors, and enemies among his own.

This is the second Civil War novel by Jeane Heimberger Candido, who has contributed to Blue & Gray Magazine, Civil War Historian, has appeared on PBS, and enjoys living in two world.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateJul 25, 2012
ISBN9781477225028
Shepherd's Song
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Jeane Heimberger Candido

Jeane Heimberger Candido has by turns been a marketing and advertising manager, newspaper reporter, photographer, columnist, freelance writer, Civil War historian, living historian, and commentator. Her first books The Redemption of Corporal Nolan Giles and Shepherd's Song were of the Civil War. She has written for Blue & Gray Magazine, Civil War Historian Magazine and has appeared as an on-air historian for the PBS documentary Call to Care. Jeane has survived eighteen years of Catholic Education and has been married to an engineer for almost thirty-five years. She has two children: Anne Marie is an engineer and married to an engineer. Son Robert is a pilot and also an engineer. She was the only right-brained person in her family and therefore, the only one in her right mind--until recently. Soon she will be blessed with a daughter-in-law who is an ordained minister.

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