Beard Iron: A Civil War Novel

By J.D. Proffitt

John Demsond is a captain in the Confederate Army during the winter of 1863. Spending Christmas Eve with a family in Mount Pleasant, Virginia, he heads out with a young woman and her parents on Christmas morning to spend the holidays at their home in Danville. To his great shock, they narrowly miss a vicious raid by a brutal Union major that wipes out his friends at Mount Pleasant. Terrified that his own family is in peril, Demsond plans to head to northwest Virginia, but advancing Union soldiers keep him at bay. Much to his dismay, Demsond is called away to assist the Confederate Treasury Secretary as he seeks to save what remains of the Confederacy's gold and silver. Others-on both sides of the war-want these valuable assets for themselves, and they will do anything to get them. J. D. Proffitt's Beard Iron: A Civil War Novel captures the conflicts that erupted as the Civil War approached its end. The North abandons the military code of conduct while the South fights for survival. More fact than fiction, this novel takes an unapologetic look at the cruelty behind the Union's strategy of "total war."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511506660
• ISBN13: 9781511506663
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.2" x 5.5"