Written in the Southern vernacular, The Battle for Georgia is an epic historical fiction set during the American Civil War about the lives of a small band of strong-willed and strong-armed Southerners. Highlighting battles fought by troops heading from the Hood stronghold and hollows of Tennessee to the burning of Atlanta, amid whitewashed Northern viewpoints, this novel revives a decidedly proud Southern tradition of fierce independence and ingenuity. A telling, forceful and lively debut, author and historian Robert W. Hester proves that through power and sacrifice one person can make all...

Bold and telling, The Battle for North Carolina by Robert W. Hester is a stunning portrait of Southerner's epic sacrifices made fighting for freedom during the War Between the States. This masterfully written and meticulously researched novel, following Hester's epic The Battle for Georgia, heroically depicts the true horror of the War-hard-fought battles filled with bloodshed, betrayal, and remorse that shattered the plans of the Yankee invaders. From the diary of a young Annie Gibbs Blount, to a young confused boy's uncompromised life of intrigue, the narrative sketches the violent...

In 1865, General James Minschew's Confederate Army of Georgia secretly marches into the Shenandoah Valley to take the fight to the Union Army and secure a foothold in Maryland and attempt to free twenty thousand Confederate POWs. Among those who fight for General Minschew's army are Abby and Minnie Fuller, an African-American woman and a white woman. While part of the CSA medical corps that travels with the regiment, they take up arms in the man-starved Confederate army, inserting themselves into the battle with the same courage and bravery as any other soldier. After many battles and...