For Yours Is The Kingdom

The last Union Civil War widow, at age seventeen, had married an eighty one year old veteran. She was living in a primitive log cabin unaware that her story had spread internationally. Near death, a delirious man suffering from typhoid fever was admitted to a remote Haitian hospital. A witch doctor was being treated in a bed nearby. In a mountainous rural clinic, a moonshiner's elderly daughter, raised on "corn liquor," visited a doctor for the first time. Desperate to survive, a family was...