Lance weller biography

          Lance Weller is the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel WILDERNESS which has been published in English (Bloomsbury ), French (Editions.

        1. Lance Weller is the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel WILDERNESS which has been published in English (Bloomsbury ), French (Editions.
        2. Lance Weller has published short fiction in several literary journals.
        3. About the author .
        4. Lance lives in the US and is a Washington State native, he has hiked and camped extensively in the landscape he describes.
        5. Biography Lance Weller has published short fiction in several literary journals.

          6. About the author ..

          History of JOB'S COFFIN

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          On April 12, 1864—a blustery, wet Tuesday—as the American Civil War was entering its final, bloodiest stage, Confederate forces under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest attacked to capture a backwater outpost on the banks of the Mississippi River in Tennessee called Fort Pillow.  What followed was less battle than slaughter as Forrest’s men massacred the Union soldiers defending the fort—many of them black recruits newly emancipated, newly free, new to the idea they belonged to no one but themselves—as they tried to surrender.  The “battle” caused a public uproar that was quickly overshadowed by the apocalyptic events of the opening of Grant’s campaign in the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, Hood and Sherman struggling for Atlanta, and the long, weary siege of Petersburg. 

           

          This is the history that my new novel, JOB’S COFFIN (Le Cercueil de Job) grapples with. 

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