SOUTHERN CAVALRYMEN FIGHTING FOR A LOST CAUSE IN CIVIL WAR

  JACKSONVILLE, FL - 03/01/2017 (PRESS RELEASE JET)

Why did they answer the call by the thousands? Why did they join the Confederate Army to face the unknown? What motivated them to ride into the barrels of cannon?

Hugh Sinclair, a young Georgia, was one of those who joined in 1861 when his beloved South went to war with the Union. .Soon, Captain Sinclair was riding with the elite cavalry of his hero, General JEB Stuart, attacking the enemy across blood-soaked battlefields. Although he and his closest friends, Andy Johns, and Wayne Deadwyler understood the realities that meant that the war would end in defeat, they were willing to fight to the bitter end.

The three young cavalrymen became known for their daring and willingness to tackle any mission thrown at them by their commanders, no matter how unexpected. They found themselves sent on spying campaigns into the heart of enemy territory-Washington-where Wayne and Hugh barely escaped hanging. In Charleston, SC, Andy and Hugh were caught up another strange quest-helping to identify the mysterious “thing” that seemed to be diving under water to damage blockade-running ships.

Back in Richmond, they continued their regular duties with their cavalry units, until they were summoned for another operation, which would be the most perilous of all. In disguise, they would have to infiltrate a Union fort and get a close look at a powerful, deadly new weapon the North reporete4dly had. Could they get away with their own audacious plan-and steal the weapon out from under the “Yankees’” noses?

Theirs was the story of the men in gray, who turned out to fight for the Cause. Why did these men, many of whom never owned a slave, show up bravely to do their part? Why did they wilily take on assignments they had no idea they could carry out and then do so? Why did do things mostly without question? Why were they willing to lose everything-even their lives?

Why? Because they were Southerners? That’s why!

“BECAUSE THEY WERE SOUTHERNERS” BY Philip Harris, is available at Amazon and Kindle.