American author born 29 November 1947 in Dachau, Germany, and raised in Manchester, Georgia, USA. He earned his BA in World Literature at Columbus State University, GA, in 1972. He received his MA in American Literature at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, 1985. Richard Fulgham determined at sixteen to write the great American Novel and many believe he did so in this extrapolation of a Southern soldier's actual diary. It is a day by day recreation of the rebel soldier's stint in the Confederate army, seeing action in thirteen bloody battles during four major campaigns. The book is also