JOHN C. BUSH was born in the Florida Panhandle and grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, with ancestral roots in Virginia Colony, 1670. His career as a Presbyterian minister took him from Alabama to Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky and Michigan and back to Alabama. In retirement, he and his wife make their home in the Tennessee Valley of North Alabama, placing them in and near many of the locations where much of this story takes place. He is author or editor of four non-fiction books; PATRIOTS AND REBELS is his first novel.