ASIN: B00CVCUCSA
Publisher: GrayCastleBooks
Pages: 189
The saga of Doctor R. Hickman begins with this book, “The Last Glowing Ember.” This story leaves the generals and heroes upon the pedestals where history, with its tweaks and polish, has placed them. Doc, a Tennessee farm boy with problems common to every man, faces adulthood far too soon. In this novel, the young man struggles with his faith in God, separation from family and the girl he left behind, his ability to kill his fellowman, and his own survival.Raised in an idyllic rural setting, Doc was ill-equipped to handle the dramatic events that the Civil War placed before him. The patriotic fervor ran hot as newly recruited farm boys in uniform were adored by swooning ladies. At training camp, worldly excesses abounded, tempting “good Christian boys” to wade into the pleasures of sin. The barbaric carnage of the first days of battle sickened the hardest of hearts. All of these things ...
