The Carolina Brattons is a family history that focuses on four extraordinary men and their families in one line of the Bratton family from South Carolina. It includes a Revolutionary War hero, a general in the American Civil War, a bishop of Mississippi, and an entrepreneur and philanthropist. The book is highly researched, full of historical details, and spans six generations. It also contains over fifty images and five appendixes.

The reader will travel with the Brattons from Ireland to South Carolina, and then move with them to Tennessee, Mississippi, and to...