Lunch At Lenoir: A Historical Drama in Two Acts

By Fredric G Bender

Lunch in Lenoir is a play in two acts that takes place on the eve of the American Civil War in February 1860, a time South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas had already seceded from the Union, seven of the eleven states that ultimately made up the Confederacy. Eager to help his cause, a South Carolinian rice plantation owner near Charleston named Robert Miles decides to travel into the hill country of North Carolina, an area known to have strong Union sympathies, where he hopes to convince them of the dangers of the Lincoln administration and the advantage of joining the coming Confederacy. He meets a yeoman farmer and his sons in a hotel in Lenoir, North Carolina at lunchtime.
Freedom from a perceived tyrannical Lincoln and individual freedom are compared "between the lines" as well as openly, leading to a final scene climax in the hotel's stable.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GY4V4LYZ
• ISBN13: 9798257287961
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"