It's getting time for the Civil War reenactors to think about getting into battlefields. Here's a new story line that might interest them or any Civil War buff. Ella Mayfield was a strong willed, independent woman. She was the oldest of the Mayfield children. The family was homesteading in Vernon County Missouri when the war started. They feared the Jawhawkers in Kansas, but those men hadn't gotten down as far as Montevallo yet. The Mayfield men joined the Confederate army, but worried so much about the women and children at home, they didn't reenlist, choosing to become Bushwhackers. Now they had to worry about Iowa soldiers at Ft. Scott Kansas. No one in the band could compare to Ella for daring and narrow escapes. The book is both fiction and fact. Life was a struggle in Ozarks just like anywhere else in the south. Battles and skirmishes are taken from the 1887 Vernon County History book that is written twenty years after the war when the sting of hardship is still fresh with people in the area. Sold on Amazon ISBN 1438235461 It's almost fifty degrees outside. We are basking in spring here already. Gotta go. I'm reading off some of my short stories to give to a blind woman. She likes my writing.
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