Reconstructed Yankee

Reconstructed Yankee is a fictional biography based on the life of freeman and Afro-Confederate Silas Chandler, and is woven into actual historical events. It examines the most forgotten and maligned soldiers of America's Civil War. Caleb Parker, a Free Person Of Color living in the Confederacy, and his best friend, Tom Parker (whose father once owned and freed Caleb's father), join the Union militia to avoid forced enrollment in the Confederate army.Yankee atrocities and personal tragedies lead them to change loyalties, and they spend the bloodiest months of the war as Confederates. After experiencing gruesome battle, Caleb deides to abandon war and death. Returning to North Carolina, Caleb fears for his family's safety, and he moves north where his hopes for the freedoms promised by emancipation are crushed. Caleb's story looks at the mixed blessings of the first years of emancipation and the conflicts that followed. Maples causes the reader to re-think why and for what the common man fought, and to re-examine the issues of race in nineteenth century America.Maples Jack is the author of 'Reconstructed Yankee', published 2004 under ISBN 9781594110870 and ISBN 1594110875.