In September 1865 Eli Calhoon, Lieutenant Colonel, Confederate States Army, returnsed to his war-ravished plantation home, of Camellia Creek, outside Port Gibson, Mississippi, resolved to begin again. But Mississippi, like the rest of the South, lies prostrate in the wake of a devastating conflict that wasted its population and destroyed what had been, only four years earlier, the third strongest economy in the world. More troubling, the South's recovery is now overseen by a victorious enemy determined that the economy, as well as the South's influence within the Union, will never be revived....
In September 1865 Eli Calhoon, Lieutenant Colonel, Confederate States Army, returnsed to his war-ravished plantation home, of Camellia Creek, outside ...