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Dance with the Devil by James Dressler

Tom Holloway and his Southern friends are excited about their prospects in joining the war effort, but the only thing they know of battle is what they've read about in newspapers. They envision the whole thing as an adventure, something to prove their manhood, to make them into men, and a diversion from their sometimes boring school regimen. Ultimately, they anticipate becoming heroes on a winning team. Words from a grizzled war veteran makes Tom wonder whether his ideas of…

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James Dressler

This novel was a very long time in coming but was probably inevitable. Like many Southerners of my generation, my childhood was steeped in family stories of ancestors' activities during the War of Northern Aggression. Northerners don't seem to share this experience in quite the same way, perhaps because the war was fought, for the most part, in the South. This then is a Southern novel, written from the Southern perspective. It couldn't have been otherwise. In a larger sense,…

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