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These stories are offered as refl ections on the size, cause, scope and anguish of the Civil War, yet there is about them an intimacy of participation. It is difficult to capture both in a story of that war's magnitude without caricatures of the people or distortions of the events to accommodate the characters. Here they are, one author's offerings, possibly to put alongside the stories of Ambrose Bierce and William Faulkner.That would be an honor, for certain! The anecdotes are just that - relevant pieces of the overall war story.

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"My Sons! My Sons!" is not an apologetic for Southern culture of the 19thcentury, nor is it an indictment of the South for slavery, the divisive racistculture of cotton that resulted in the Civil War. All civil wars are cultureclashes.

A town crier walked through the village streets ringing his bell and shouting headlines to the residents - the early kind of journalists, the chief method in isolated American town and villages of delivering the news. His cries were fundamental to good journalism in those times -just delivery of the facts. On any scale in growing cities came larger and filtered down into villages in the form of one-page, hand-operated press, the type set by hand into a chase and the crude paper impressed with the news. Meantime, the town crier continued well into the nineteenth century, replicated by the newsboy who drags his wagon filled with paper and broadcasts the headlines, "ROCK HOUSES PRICE UP...ROCK HOUSES SPRING UP, read all about it!" The Crier rings his bell to alert attention.

If you read one of these stories, you have not read them all, as is the case in a communist country, where the state creates an ersatz society of act-alikes who conform to prevailing doctrines. Propaganda is the result. These stories are the result of a life of freedom in our great nation, where freedom, wever being put down by the State, is still the expression of man’s deepest desires to be like God. Insofar as the unique individual shares creative gifts, he shares one of God’s attributes. These stories, perhaps only one hopefully more, will exhult in that creative spirit.