Edgar - by Ben Steinlage (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Edgar, by Ben Steinlage is another gripping story about the one of the characters in his first novel "Want to Go West Lady." This story is about Ida Duncan's first husband. As in the first novel it begins prior to the Civil War and into the Reconstruction. In this novel you get a better feeling of what it was like fighting in the war. Then the chaos and the loss of dignity as the southern people try to get their lives together again. In this battle for their lives their salvation was the love shared by the couple, children and friends. Along with the war the reader is taken on their journey to a new life out west.

Review Quotes

"A good tale about the spoiled son of a Virginia planter his loss pf innocence as a Confederate soldier and his return home to find the love of his childhood grown to womanhood convinces him that the west holds his future."

-Tom Glass- Author of: Stenoshe/The Allegheny West