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When Stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire at the height of his greatest victory in 1863, the course of the Civil War and American history was changed. "Cross Over The River," a carefully researched novel, paints a passionate and realistic portrait of the Civil War's most enigmatic and daring general. In private a quiet, loving man, Jackson was a stern Old Testament warrior who took breathtaking chances against terrible odds. He feinted and hid his army, struck like lightning at the Union flank or rear, hammered larger armies, bedeviled Lincoln and lifted Southern morale. His men...

A group of old friends, most just past sixty. They've done well in careers, although only one has put away enough money to think, without wry laughter, about retiring. But they want to do something meaningful in these later days of their lives. As with a lot of baby boomers, their raucous idealism of the Sixties has been drifted over by layers of jobs and mortgages and families and divorces and vacations and cars and gadgets and...

Whatever happened to that changing the world thing?

Tired of just bitching, they decide to get active again, put something back in the stream....

A group of old friends, most just past sixty. They've done well in careers, although only one has put away enough money to think, without wry laughter, about retiring. But they want to do something meaningful in these later days of their lives. As with a lot of baby boomers, their raucous idealism of the Sixties has been drifted over by layers of jobs and mortgages and families and divorces and vacations and cars and gadgets and...

Whatever happened to that changing the world thing?

Tired of just bitching, they decide to get active again, put something back in the stream....