A Pea Coat Goes Home is the story of a 70 year- old coat that the author and his father shared throughout their lives. The coat will survive a world war, be worn during a marriage proposal and handed down to the author as he wears it in his own youth. The coat will occupy many closets as lives change until it is ultimately returned to the ship (now a museum) where its original owner served during World War 2.

A Pea Coat Goes Home

Biographies & Memoirs

Rolston, Les

Leaders & Notable People

Revival Waves Of Glory Ministries

Sam Postlethwaite is the only Confederate soldier known to be buried in Rhode Island. Beginning with nothing more than a handful of dirt, author Les Rolston's innocent curiosity about this mysterious soldier's grave became a journey of thousands of miles that eventually led him to the soldier's family. The result is this factual account of Postlethwaite's odyssey and the author's determined efforts to learn his story.
Other important facets of this affecting historical account are the experiences of Postlethwaite's fourteen-year-old brother, who found glory with Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley; and a boy from a prominent Rhode Island family who was emotionally ruined by the Civil War. Both their families, embittered by war, were destined to merge through a Civil War romance and marriage.
This book is a tribute to all of the people, Northerners and Southerners, who joined together to choose forgiveness and understanding over bitterness and hatred.

Lost Soul: The Confederate Soldier in New England

Historical

Ancestry.com

Experience the entire Civil War through the eyes of the soldiers-North and South. Fast paced, this very human story reads like you're watching a movie. "During wartime, soldiers never know the whole picture. Tracing the surprising parallel lives of childhood friends and kinsmen, Elisha Hunt Rhodes of the 2nd R. I. Regiment and James Rhodes Sheldon of the 50th Georgia Regiment, amidst the background of the Civil War from beginning to end, Les Rolston has shed new light from primary and secondary sources and added a poignant human touch to history." Robert Hunt Rhodes -editor of ALL FOR THE UNION: THE CIVIL WAR DIARY AND LETTERS OF ELISHA HUNT RHODES as featured in the PBS-TV series THE CIVIL WAR by Ken Burns.

Long Time Gone, Neighbors Divided by Civil War

Mariner Companies, Inc.

Home Of The Brave: In Their Own Words, Selected Short Stories Of Immigrant Medal Of Honor Recipients Of The Civil

Community & Culture

RWG Publishing

Long Time Gone: Neighbors Divided by Civil War

Lost Soul: A Confederate Soldier In New England

Revival Waves of Glory Books & Publishing

Home of the Brave-In Their Own Words: Immigrants Who Received The Medal Of Honor In The Civil War. The book is a collection of stories about some of the hundreds of immigrant soldiers who fought in the American Civil War.

Home of the Brave: In Their Own Words: Immigrants Who Received The Medal Of Honor in the Civil War

History

Americas

Blue Mustang Press

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