Solomon Ramsdell: A Novel of the Civil War Era

He survived Andersonville . . . and then his trials really began.

Solomon Ramsdell brought the love of his life to his new farm in pioneer Michigan, then the Civil War threatened all they were building together. He heeded the call to the Union army, was captured and imprisoned, then returned to Jennette to find his life forever changed. This heartfelt novel explores the real people hinted at in the historical record. Though Solomon's story is partially told in the companion novel ROSETTE, this volume reveals what he must have suffered and what might have been his rescue.

"Touching without being sentimental, SOLOMON RAMSDELL is a journey through trauma and grief that finds a happy ending not far from where it started."

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Solomon Ramsdell: A Novel of the Civil War Era

He survived Andersonville . . . and then his trials really began.

Solomon Ramsdell brought the love of his life to his new farm in pioneer Michigan, then the Civil War threatened all they were building together. He heeded the call to the Union army, was captured and imprisoned, then returned to Jennette to find his life forever changed. This heartfelt novel explores the real people hinted at in the historical record. Though Solomon's story is partially told in the companion novel ROSETTE, this volume reveals what he must have suffered and what might have been his rescue.

"Touching without being sentimental, SOLOMON RAMSDELL is a journey through trauma and grief that finds a happy ending not far from where it started."

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Solomon Ramsdell: A Novel of the Civil War Era

Solomon Ramsdell: A Novel of the Civil War Era

by Cindy Rinaman Marsch
Solomon Ramsdell: A Novel of the Civil War Era

Solomon Ramsdell: A Novel of the Civil War Era

by Cindy Rinaman Marsch

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Overview

He survived Andersonville . . . and then his trials really began.

Solomon Ramsdell brought the love of his life to his new farm in pioneer Michigan, then the Civil War threatened all they were building together. He heeded the call to the Union army, was captured and imprisoned, then returned to Jennette to find his life forever changed. This heartfelt novel explores the real people hinted at in the historical record. Though Solomon's story is partially told in the companion novel ROSETTE, this volume reveals what he must have suffered and what might have been his rescue.

"Touching without being sentimental, SOLOMON RAMSDELL is a journey through trauma and grief that finds a happy ending not far from where it started."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780997112733
Publisher: Moraine's Edge Books
Publication date: 03/26/2021
Series: The Ramsdell Family
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

CINDY RINAMAN MARSCH enjoys living and writing in rural Western Pennsylvania. This fiction series began with the journal of a young woman lost to history, whose spirit has opened a new era of creativity in the author's life.

BETSY MARSCH specializes in portrait and figure painting on reacted copper panels. Since taking her BA in painting, aesthetics, and philosophy from Union University (Jackson, TN), she has worked as a metal smith, artist, and art tutor while showing in solo and group exhibitions and giving talks on the practice and philosophy of art. In 2016 she attended a residency at the New York Academy of Art in lower Manhattan and in 2018 studied briefly under the nihonga painter Makoto Fujimura.

Table of Contents

TESTIMONY FROM THE PENSION RECORD OF SOLOMON RAMSDELL

PROLOGUE JUNE 1864

BEGINNINGS JUNE 1857

Wagon

Watsons'

Doubts

Lake

SEPARATION 1861-1863

Idyll

Grand Rapids

Newspaper

INTO WAR 1863-1864

Leave-taking

Engagements

THE CRUX SUMMER 1864

Andersonville

Ransom

RETURN SUMMER 1865

Homecoming

Convalescence

TEMPTATION 1865-1866

Unease

Revelation

Translation

Rampage

RESOLUTION FALL 1866

Concentration

Thanksgiving

Interlude

PROSPECTS EARLY DECEMBER 1866

Gifts

Lillianne

Reaching

RESCUE LATE DECEMBER 1866

Proposition

Cutter

Reunion

Decision

CROSSING LATE DECEMBER 1866 - MARCH 1867

Proposal

Reconciliation

Family

AFTERWORD "PIONEER PROFILE: THE RAMSDELLS"

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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