ISBN: 9780595199136

An action-packed adventure, Long Road Winding is the story of Plenny Oliver Cash from his birth in 1806 through the tumultuous years of the Civil War. A common man living in uncommon time… Meer...

An action-packed adventure, Long Road Winding is the story of Plenny Oliver Cash from his birth in 1806 through the tumultuous years of the Civil War. A common man living in uncommon times, in 1806, Plenny Oliver Cash was born into a family of established Virginia planters. After his abusive father gambled away his inheritances, the family would immigrate into Georgia in the 1820s. Losing his young wife and unborn child in childbirth, Plenny would become estranged from his older brother and An action-packed adventure, Long Road Winding is the story of Plenny Oliver Cash from his birth in 1806 through the tumultuous years of the Civil War. A common man living in uncommon times, in 1806, Plenny Oliver Cash was born into a family of established Virginia planters. After his abusive father gambled away his inheritances, the family would immigrate into Georgia in the 1820s. Losing his young wife and unborn child in childbirth, Plenny would become estranged from his older brother and would begin an odyssey that would continue until Sherman's advance on Atlanta caused him to reunite with his brother and return to DeKalb County. During the ensuing years, even as he battled demons within, he would become a sailor and a railroad man. Later, he would remarry and father a family as he once again farmed the land. While not a soldier, he was a Union sympathizer who would be forced to take an active part in the war in support of the South. After the Yankee army rampaged through North Georgia and departed Atlanta, Plenny would become a leader in the fight against the Bummers that had flooded in on the coattails of the victorious Union army. Books, Fiction~~Historical, Long-Road-Winding~~Robert-K-Honea, 1175392, Long Road Winding: A Question of Pride, Robert K. Honea, 0595199135, iUniverse, Incorporated, , , , , iUniverse, Incorporated<