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Monday, February 1, 2010

Cannons Waiting

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May I introduce you to the Weaver of Tales? All my life I have created things with my hands and mind. Seeing something that I created has always given me a real warm fuzzy. In teaching I found that if the children gave me a couple of words I could tell them a story without hesitation using the words they had given me. Now that I have retired I haven’t stopped writing. I find that creating my characters and story is one of the most satisfying things I have done. There is no end to what I have learned. My first published books are historical novels, “The Bluegrass Dream” and “Natchez Above the River.” The second one is the first of a series of the Civil War. My next book to be published is “Four Long Years.” There is more to my life than just weaving tales. I have a wonderful husband with a great since of humor whom I have been with for fifty-two years. We like to play golf, bridge, boat in the summer, visit with friends and family, and we enjoy a little television together. We are big Kentucky basketball fans. Go Big Blue! I have always been a very busy person and I hope it continues.
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SHILOH

The word Shiloh has a beautiful sound to the name. A little research tells me that Shiloh is a Hebrew word that means gift. A second meaning is he who was sent. He who was sent was a gift God sent to us.


The little Shiloh Church in Tennessee had a beautiful setting to go along with the sound of its name. In the quiet country side of Tennessee at Pittsburgh Landing stood the Shiloh Church. It had a peach orchard that filled the area with its sweet aroma from its full pink blossoms.

Pittsburgh Landing was across from Corinth, Mississippi. Here Albert S. Johnston and his Confederate boys were stationed. Grant and his Union boys were camped by the Shiloh Church. Grant was hoping for a decisive win.

Tension ran high with the anticipation of what was to come. Then Johnston attacked. Two days these large armies clashed. General Johnston was called to his maker along with thirty-five hundred blue and gray boys. The casualties rose to a total of twenty-five thousand. The bodies of the dead and the casualties were covered with the pink pedals of the peach blossoms. Grant did win but the cost was great.

The public of both the North and the South were appalled at the numbers. This gruesome page of history did not deter these armies. They continued this slaughter for two more years. The Civil War cost our country six hundred thousand lives plus an enormous number of casualties.

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It was reported that the Battle of Gettysburg was heard 140 miles away. The First Lady heard the Battle of Manassas 40 miles away.

The most interesting were the 'silent' battles. There was the bombardment of Port Royal in South Carolina. People saw the flash of the cannons but did not hear their roar in the duel between the Monitor and the Merrimac. There were several others like Gains Mill in Virginia and Mississippi's Burnsville Road.

One occurred in my home state, Perryville, Kentucky. General Carlos Buell did not hear the clash of the Blue and Gray armies just three miles from his headquarters.

The acoustics produced by the terrian, the wind's speed and direction, and the density of the air may be factors in these phenomenons. Weaver Of Tales































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