Nashville 1864: The Dying of the Light
- ISBN-10
- 014027880X
- ISBN-13
- 9780140278804
- Series
- Nashville 1864
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- Madison Jones
Description
Forty-eight-year-old Steven Moore describes how, at age twelve, he and his slave companion were caught behind Union enemy lines while searching for Steven's father during the 1864 Battle of Nashville
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