Music Of The Better Angels

by Deborah Holland Nunnery

An old fiddle, not a weapon, saved one Confederate soldier who was wounded and captured at Gettysburg. And that same battle-ravaged fiddle assured his survival of the worst POW camp in the Union. Raiford Royal, a self-described "farmer by trade, musician by choice, and Southerner by the grace of God" enlisted to fight the Yankees in 1861. A promotion to Regimental Musician brought him a pay raise and the gruesome job of field medic. Ill-prepared for battlefield carnage, he managed to combine music and medicine successfully until Gettysburg brought his true fight for survival. The author's great-grandfather is the protagonist of this book of fact-based fiction. It is written for everyone who thinks they know why Southerners fought in the Civil War.

Paperback

Published July 6, 2004