My Books

Georgiana, Like So Many

Georgiana, Like So Many is an immersion into the life and times of a Connecticut woman who experienced the era (1849-1930) when life changed for American women as never before. After living through the horror of the Civil War as a young teen, Georgiana waltzes with the love of her life into America’s Golden Age of Invention. She witnesses the introduction of electricity, indoor plumbing, new transportations and communications, new music, summer cottages and Prohibition. And the full seventy years of women trying to win the right to vote and succeeding. With scant recording of women in this era, using information pried from the records of men, Georgiana is brought to life, and with her, the lives of many ordinary women who experienced this era of change.

The Civil War Letters of Abner C. Smith

This book contains 111 letters written by Civil War Union soldier Abner C. Smith to his wife and children in East Haddam, Conn. The transcribed letters tell the story of the Civil War in the voice of an ordinary Union soldier who tries with all his might to raise four children and support his wife through the written word only. He served two-and-a-half years from 1862 to 1865 in the 20th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers. His letters come from battle after battle, including Gettysburg, and from march after march, including Sherman’s March to the Sea. They make a gripping true story of a family separated by the Civil War.