Holding Sweet Communion

By Martha R. Brown

Nancy Jane DeArmond's life takes a dramatic turn when her 35-year-old husband Aaron leaves home to join the Confederate army. Letters carried in his rucksack and her apron pocket sustain their love and life during tumultuous years of war. He writes from the battlefields of Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg and Washington City while she struggles with new responsibilities of managing their farm and dealing with deprivation. War changes people, and Nancy Jane is no exception. This story deals with universal, timeless feelings evoked by any season of war-hope, doubt, desire, faith, betrayal, regret, longing, loyalty, loss, pain and love, each intensified by the determination to endure. Quoting Aaron's actual Civil War letters, Brown brings an historical family back to life and adds fictional characters who are right at home in the North Carolina landscape.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478131217
• ISBN13: 9781478131212
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"