Choosing Sides: Blood Is Spilled
(2023)(The third book in the Snakebit series)
A novel by John Poniske
The Garrett Family faces an alarming situation. War is declared and they’re in the
thick of it. On the border between the Confederacy and the Union, Maryland
families live on both sides of their brand-new, disconcerting border. Friends and
neighbors are forced to take sides.
The reader witnesses unrest in California and conflict in Arizona. Back East, green
soldiers flock to their flags and tragedy strikes at the Union debacle, Ball’s Bluff.
Soon after, we stand with Confederate militia to watch the Union beaten again in
the first Battle of Antietam.
Burned out for ministering to runaways, the Garrets sell their land and move in
with relatives closer to the Mason-Dixon. Amid it all, a slave girl rescued by
Geoffrey Garrett is kidnapped by her previous owner. An exciting chase ensues
along the banks of the Potomac.
In our story, we visit Lincoln in Washington and Davis in Richmond. We see the
Union blockade form then run the blockade all the way to Nassau. We experience
the Union’s incursions into the Carolinas. McClellan gathers troops on the
Peninsula to march on Richmond, while Fortress Monroe becomes a burgeoning
haven for runaways.
The Garretts are thankful to have survived another year but dread the future.
After our wild adventure up, down and across our war-torn country, our novel
embarks on a heartwarming, whirlwind Christmas tour of our characters’ homes -
North and South.
This is fiction - but set in the historical Civil War you may not know
Genre: Historical
thick of it. On the border between the Confederacy and the Union, Maryland
families live on both sides of their brand-new, disconcerting border. Friends and
neighbors are forced to take sides.
The reader witnesses unrest in California and conflict in Arizona. Back East, green
soldiers flock to their flags and tragedy strikes at the Union debacle, Ball’s Bluff.
Soon after, we stand with Confederate militia to watch the Union beaten again in
the first Battle of Antietam.
Burned out for ministering to runaways, the Garrets sell their land and move in
with relatives closer to the Mason-Dixon. Amid it all, a slave girl rescued by
Geoffrey Garrett is kidnapped by her previous owner. An exciting chase ensues
along the banks of the Potomac.
In our story, we visit Lincoln in Washington and Davis in Richmond. We see the
Union blockade form then run the blockade all the way to Nassau. We experience
the Union’s incursions into the Carolinas. McClellan gathers troops on the
Peninsula to march on Richmond, while Fortress Monroe becomes a burgeoning
haven for runaways.
The Garretts are thankful to have survived another year but dread the future.
After our wild adventure up, down and across our war-torn country, our novel
embarks on a heartwarming, whirlwind Christmas tour of our characters’ homes -
North and South.
This is fiction - but set in the historical Civil War you may not know
Genre: Historical
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