Ohio Civil War Show Mansfield, Ohio April 30- May 1, 2011

 

Hiram's Honor will be for sale at the 64th OVI table at the Ohio Civil War Show in Mansfield, Ohio.

In 1861 Hiram Terman joins the 82nd Ohio Infantry not sensing in the slightest what is coming.  At twenty, he has just immersed himself in the boiling cauldron of the American Civil War. As the 82nd moves from battle to battle, he is tormented by the carnage around him and leans on his two friends, the religious Isaiah and the secular Seth for comfort. When the unthinkable happens and they are captured at Gettysburg and eventually sent to the whirlpool of death at Andersonville, their faith and beliefs are tested to the extreme in this true story hammered from the fiery battlefields and grinding prison camps of America's Armageddon.

Ken Burns The Civil War on PBS

 On Picket Duty

I have seen Burn's The Civil War (now showing on PBS) at least 5 times and each exposure  brings forth new thoughts and feelings of the kind that no doubt provided much of the emotional power behind Hiram's Honor.

Good Source for Civil War events and information

http://www.reenactmenthq.com/

Civil War Ancestor Records National Archives

Medical record, muster sheet, and Prisoner of War records for Private Hiram Terman, 82nd Ohio from the National Archives.  Finding records like these for my ancestor added reality to the writing of Hiram's Honor.

Hiram's Honor in Troy, Ohio

I am pleased to announce that Hiram's Honor is now available in Troy, Ohio at Around About Books.  Stop in and have a look around!

Hiram's Honor now available as ebook

NOW IN EBOOK FORMAT

 
I have created and submitted to ebook distributors an ebook version of Hiram's Honor.  The following links offer the download and more will be added.

Sample or purchase Hiram's Honor: Reliving Private Terman's Civil War:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/50674
http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=1011426&v=widget

http://www.powells.com/s?kw=Hiram%27s+Honor&class=ebooks

http://www.ebookpie.com/books/262219-hiram-s-honor-reliving-private-terman-s-civil-war-ebook

Vicksburg Murals Sultana Story

 Max Terman pointing to one of the Andersonville Sultana prisoners of war, Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg, Ms.

As astute readers of Hiram's Honor will note, one of the 82nd Ohio Andersonville prisoners is left behind only to face the horrors of the Sultana which exploded on the Mississippi River killing most of the people on the overcrowded steamer!  This story of an Andersonville-Sultana survivor is the subject of my next book and we were thrilled to see a mural of prisoners of war boarding the Sultana at Vicksburg.  The mural is part of a wall of paintings along the river front in Vicksburg.  We also visited with historians at Vicksburg Military Park and at the Old Courthouse Museum in downtown Vicksburg where we learned much about this tragic but surprisingly little known story of the Sultana.