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by Richard Lee Fulgham (Author)
Gory, terrifying, historically accurate, impeccably detailed, and absolutely true account of Rebel soldier's experience during America's Civil War. He survives thirteen battles in four major campaigns under Generals George Pickett and William Longstreet. Yet, our soldier's worst fear is not of being shot but of the smart, ruthless wild hogs stalking both armies. He can see them on the mountains, in the thickets, at the edge of the woods, waiting patiently to eat the faces of the dead and wounded after darkness has covered the battlefields. Hess' actual diary is included as an appendix, along with a complete bibliography. ENDORSED BY NORMAN MAILER (author of "The Naked and the Dead): This book is a discovery. It gave me so close a sense of what it was like to be a Confederate soldier in the Civil War that I began to think of my own army experience. Old fears, old excitements, even memories of my old equipment, and with it all, vivid as the sound of gunfire, came the smell of battle in the air of the book. I loved reading 'The Hogs of Cold Harbor'. I was in the Civil War on the Southern side. That is no small education for a Northerner like me." -- Norman Mailer
Author Biography
American author born 29 November 1947 in Dachau, Germany, and raised in Manchester, Georgia, USA. He earned his BA in World Literature at Columbus State University, GA, in 1972. He received his MA in American Literature at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, 1985. Richard Fulgham determined at sixteen to write the great American Novel and many believe he did so in this extrapolation of a Southern soldier's actual diary. It is a day by day recreation of the rebel soldier's stint in the Confederate army, seeing action in thirteen bloody battles during four major campaigns. The book is also an accurate, graphic and impeccably researched history of the 29th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company B, Corse's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreets Corps. Late Pulitzer Prize winning author Norman Mailer read "The Hogs of Cold Harbor" and sent the author a handwritten endorsement upon reading the Whitmore Press version in 2005. During America's war with Vietnam, Fulgham served on board the US Navy warship USS Raleigh (LPD-1). His father was a paratrooper with the 101st Screaming Eagles in World War II. His great great grandfather fought as a private in one of Georgia's infantry brigades. Richard Fulgham's war was the struggle to survive as an independent writer from 1972 to 1997, during which he wrote regularly for newspapers, regional publications and national magazines. He published his first book in the year 2000, a popular history book of southwest Virginia entitled "Appalachian Genesis: The Clinch River Valley from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Frontier Era" (TN, Overmountain Press, 2000).
