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    Orphan Hero: A Novel of the Civil War
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    Orphan Hero: A Novel of the Civil War

    By John Babb

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    From a former US Assistant Surgeon General comes the epic tale of a young man’s struggle to survive a journey across America during the Civil War.

    Told by his stepmother that he alone had been responsible for the death of his mother, abandoned by the earlier departure of his father for the California 1849 goldfields, and threatened with being locked in a cage with his stepmother’s psychotic brother, eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin B .F.” Windes decides to abandon home and trail his father’s path. Thus begins a trip of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States.

    B.F. spends the next eleven years in gold rush towns in Californiafirst as a barber, then as a physician’s assistantbefore departing for the Caribbean at age nineteen, where he becomes a blockade-runner during the American Civil War. At war’s end, he discovers that the men he had been dealing with were nothing more than common murderers and thievesBushwhackers.

    He travels to the Missouri Ozarks where he meets the girl of his dreams. But their romance is threatened when he finds himself battling a man from his past in order to safeguard his family and his future.

    Orphan Hero, based on the life of the author’s great-grandfather in the mid-nineteenth century, is a tale of courage and perseverance in the face of incredible hardship.

    Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYucca
    Release dateAug 4, 2015
    ISBN9781631580598
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    Orphan Hero: A Novel of the Civil War
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    John Babb

    John Babb is a former US assistant surgeon general as well as a retired rear admiral in the US Public Health Service. His background has allowed him to accurately portray some of the primitive medical techniques and remedies as well as curative folk practices of the 1850s. He lives in Tennessee with his wife, Victoria.

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