Music Of The Better Angels

An old fiddle, not a weapon, saved one Confederate soldier who was wounded and captured at Gettysburg. And that same battle-ravaged fiddle assured his survival of the worst POW camp in the Union. Raiford Royal, a self-described "farmer by trade, musician by choice, and Southerner by the grace of God" enlisted to fight the Yankees in 1861. A promotion to Regimental Musician brought him a pay raise and the gruesome job of field medic. Ill-prepared for battlefield carnage, he managed to combine music and medicine successfully until Gettysburg brought his true fight for survival. The author's great-grandfather is the protagonist of this book of fact-based fiction. It is written for everyone who thinks they know why Southerners fought in the Civil War.Nunnery, Deborah Holland is the author of 'Music Of The Better Angels', published 2004 under ISBN 9781418425531 and ISBN 1418425532.