Böcker av Sam Gilbert

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Future America. April 2084, 60 years into the future. Two brothers, Jonathan, 59 and Elder, 55, decide to make a cross country trip after nearly thirty years of leading completely different lives. The trip starts in Cape May Point, in Southern New Jersey, through the center of the continental United States to the new west coast port of Pacific City, Idaho. Along the way they chronicle small towns, big cities and rural America. They also review the technologies, social structures, government and politics of a modern America complete with 53 states and a 54 star flag.

The Confederate States of America continues to grow and expand as it prepares for the inevitable invasion from the north. Major Elder Stuart, Sergeant Major Jesse Thompkins and Big Jim Porchais find themselves becoming the eyes and ears of General Samuel Cooper and his boss, President Jefferson Davis, sometimes in very dangerous circumstances. Witness the rise of the Confederate Military hierarchy as Generals jockey for positions. Ride the ever shrinking no man's land between the Union and Confederate Armies as they finally meet at Manassas Junction and its' infamous stream known as Bull Run. A place where legends were born and the myth of a short, glorious war died. See the chaos of the collapse of the Union Army and the panicked retreat back to Washington. Ride through a silent battlefield that has been cleared of the wounded, but not the dead. Witness the reactions as both sides realize that this will be a long, bloody war.....

Major Elder Byrch Stuart, just returned from witnessing the surrender of Fort Sumter, is sent to Virginia by General Samuel Cooper to do an independent report of that state's assets and readiness to join the Confederate States. On his way, he and Sergeant Major Jesse Thompkins are ordered by President Jefferson Davis to investigate a very strange incident that happened in the sky over South Carolina. While investigating that, Stuart enlists the aid of a slave, Big Jim Porche, that he knew from his time as a teacher at the Arsenal. Investigation complete, the three men continue on to complete the original mission. Once in Virginia, they meet with Major General Robert E Lee and then set out across the entire state of Virginia, from the rebellious western part of the state in the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Coast; from the outskirts of Washington DC south to the North Carolina Border. They visit the Tredegar Iron Works, Harpers Ferry Arsenal and the Gosport Navy Yard. They return to Montgomery, Alabama just in time to assist with moving the entire Government, including President Davis and his Cabinet, to the new Capital of Richmond, Virginia as the Confederate States of America continues to grow and prepare for war.....

Elder Byrch Stuart, born September 10, 1830 and raised in tiny Greenwich, New Jersey, had finally found a place that he could call home. After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1849, he served eight years in the US Army before resigning to become a teacher at the South Carolina Military Academy in Columbia. For him, it was a near perfect blend of academic pursuits in Engineering and the soldiering that he had come to love. Then, in 1860, he found himself in the middle of the secession movement that was sweeping the nation and he had to make a choice: Return to the North; or, Remain in the South, his adopted home. Stuart chooses to remain in the South, fully committed to Southern Independence and finds himself working within the highest echelons of the Confederate Government.

The BLUE EAGLE...A new symbol of hate or freedom?Will it survive?Equatoria, a tiny new nation has been declared on the west coast of Africa.....The Governments of the world react, and one does so violently....Can tiny Equatoria survive the assassinations of both their President and their Minister of State by rogue elements of the Government of the United States of America?In this 2nd book in the series the Equatorians react to this attack with shocking speed to both defend their new nation and continue their ASCENDANCE......