Ron Maxwell's Latest - Copperhead

Via Old Virginia Blog

Not that I read novels, as truth is far better than fiction. I did enjoy Traveller, but the background was historically correct. At any rate, I don't believe anyone could come up with anything other than fiction when relating a horse telling his war stories to other animals in the barn each night.:)

Based on the extraordinary novel by Harold Frederic, which the great American critic Edmund Wilson praised as a brave and singular book that “differs fundamentally from any other Civil War fiction,” Copperhead is the story of Abner Beech, a stubborn and righteous farmer of Upstate New York, who defies his neighbors and his government in the bloody and contentious autumn of 1862.

Copperhead is the great untold Civil War story. Far from the Virginia battlefields whose names etch our history, the war of Copperhead visits the devastation and unimaginable loss of a civil war upon a family and a community whose strength and very existence are tested by fire, rope, knife, and betrayal. This is the Civil War come home.