Historical Fiction
Battleline Atlanta
Jimmy C. Waters
The battles are truly horrific and this book puts you there! The black powder smoke burns your eyes, and stings your lungs as you gasp for air amid the terror of the battle line. Men attack with cannon, and the dreaded repeating rifles, as you fight back with any weapons you can find. The thunder of massed cannon takes the very breath from your body. The fighting is hand-to-hand, and on the very doorstep of every home in northern Georgia. Fighting men, their wives, and their slaves all struggle desperately to preserve their lives amid the carnage of war. Follow the men and women of the Tugalo River Valley, Major Jamie Turnbull, his wife Mary, the Jarrett family, the Davis family, and their slaves, as they live through this most dangerous of times. Battleline Atlanta tells of a time when thousands upon thousands of men fought to claim one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The terror was real among all Georgians when 100,000 of the enemy twice invaded this land, but this is much more than a war story. It is the story of love within the carnage of war, and much of the beliefs of those who fought for the heart and soul of America, tracing the early causes of war against the Union from the beginnings of the antebellum period in the 1820s. This narrative shows the thinking of men and women who once fought for their very way of life in the south during those distant years. The battles are historically presented, from the personal view of men in the defensive works. This book tells of the fight at Chickamauga in 1863, and follows Sherman’s Yankee advance into Georgia in 1864. Every battle is described with historic accuracy; the Battles of Dalton, Resaca, Pickett’s Mill, New Hope Church, the Battle of Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, and the Battle of Atlanta. Here Union spies, Harriett Tubman among them, helped slaves escape to Union lines, even as 165,000 men in both blue and grey fight to the death on nearby hillsides. You won’t want to miss this exciting novel. Battleline Atlanta is a treasure for Civil War historians and historic fiction enthusiasts alike!
Pirates, Indian war, rebellion, this colony had it all! Three hundred years of history are born in this breath-taking new novel on the settlement of New Bern and the Carolina Colony! Rebellion, yellow fever, pirates, hunger, and the Tuscarora Massacre created a crucible, a bloody hell in the Carolinas between the Chowan River and the Cape Fear. Into that maelstrom along the Neuse and the Trent, were tossed a group of desperately poor, extremely proud German Mennonites. Follow John Lawson, de Graffenreid, Martin Bender, Katheryn Simmons, and William Brice as they struggle to build a new city in a new world. The enslaved peoples, Dunker Tim, Beatrice, and Black Jambo desperately longed for freedom even as they fought for the dream of this new colony on an unforgiving frontier. In the Tuscarora War the starving settlers huddled together and prayed, as a thousand Tuscarora Warriors roamed the countryside killing everything in sight! The Gentleman Pirate, Stede Bonnet, and the cruelest pirate of all, Blackbeard, sailed these shores. Bloody cutlasses sliced the air, and ship-to-ship battles terrified the settlers as pirate cannon thundered through the night at Ocracoke and along the Cape Fear. The action captivates, and you won’t want to put this book down! Amid this hell our ancestors farmed, hunted, fell in love, raised families, and created a city on this long-ignored shore. This story is more intense than today’s headlines. There is great strength here, there is nobility here, deep in the heart and soul of these ordinary men and women, free, slave, and Native American alike. These folk struggled daily for the greatest hope, the greatest dream of all, the hope of freedom in a new world. The story is terrifying, heartbreaking, but still touching even inspiring. This is New Bern! These are the men and women of the Carolinas!
New Bern: 1710 in the Carolinas
Jimmy C. Waters
The Bender Legacy: Civil War in
North Carolina
Jimmy C. Waters
Arresting courage and amazing bravery! Men and women showed their mettle, their grit, and their honor in those demanding times. The Bender Legacy commanded assistance reaching across battle lines and between the races in this decidedly American conflict. Follow the Bender family, both black and white, as they meet inhuman demands on the battlefield and in their daily lives. Love grows and life goes on even amid the human carnage of war. Bryan Bender crosses battle lines continuously to bring help to all. Lucy Bender rescues escaped slaves as her betrothed, Phil Bender, bravely fights for the Confederacy. Jake Bender commands the ironclad, Ram Albemarle, as she fights in those dark Carolina waters! Furney Bryant organizes the African Brigade of New Bern to fight for the Union in some of the most desperate conflicts ever seen on the American continent. From the sea-born battles of Plymouth and Fort Fisher, to the desperate hand-to-hand fights at New Bern, Deep Gully, Kinston, Goldsboro, Bentonville, and Wyse Fork, you will relive the rich Carolina legacy of this bloody conflict. Amid the crash of explosive Parrott Rifles and Dahlgren guns, history comes alive in the darkest days of this conflict. No one can tell a rich, historic story of this depth like Jimmy C. Waters! Don’t miss his newest novel!