I'll Sting If I Can: The Life and Prison Letters of Major N. F. Cheairs, C.S.A.

by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.

Major N. F. Cheairs, a privileged and enterprising Middle Tennessee farmer, went to war with misgivings in 1861. An active Whig, he viewed Lincoln's election as revolution. Secession was equally revolutionary, however, and he voted against it in the special Tennessee referendum of February 1861. Nevertheless, when war came Cheairs sided with his neighbors and his state. He raised and equipped an infantry company and led it north to Kentucky and disaster...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572335319
• ISBN13: 9781572335318
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Rippavilla Plantation
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"