Hiram Robinett and his hometown friend answers President Lincoln's Call to Arms to help put down the Rebellion. Four years later, almost to the day, the war is over and the country is a total mess. The President is murdered and his reconstruction philosophy is misinterpreted by his successor, Southern-loyalist Andrew Johnson. Most of the soldiers went home, the war was over. Twenty million Northerners are upset that the Rebels are being forgiven without consequence. Eleven million Southerners see no reason to ask for forgiveness. In the meantime, half a million displaced Southern Whites and 4.2 million freed slaves have no means of supporting themselves: no food, housing, medical care, assistance of any sort. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands is created, given the budget for 1,000 workers and told to fix it. Read of men like Hiram Robinett who jumped in and gave it their all, gave until indeed they had no more to give.
Award-Winning Author of "Chauncey's Blood: A Hiram Robinette Story of the Civil War"
