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Book Two of the Twenty Lives at War Series: The American Civil War: 20 Short Stories of Courage, Rebellion, and Homefront Hope steps beyond battle maps to show how a fractured nation felt from the inside out. Across twenty stand-alone stories, the war unfolds through the eyes of people who rarely make the monuments: a Union farm boy shaking on his first night picket duty, a Confederate nurse in a makeshift church hospital, an enslaved father following rumors of the Union line, a newly freed woman searching for her sold-away children, a telegraph operator who knows the news before the generals, a border-state preacher whose congregation splits in two. From Antietam's smoke-choked fields to burned courthouses, prison camps, plantation yards, and lamplit kitchens where letters are opened with trembling hands, these voices reveal a conflict fought not just in charges and cannons, but in marriages, churches, friendships, and family tables. Read singly or together, these stories show a war that broke hearts and households-and the fragile, stubborn hope that tried to piece them back together.

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SCOTT HAMELE was born and raised in Kansas and has called the Kansas City area home since 1991. Married for more than thirty years, he treasures time with his two daughters and two grandchildren. Scott studied engineering at the University of Kansas, where he began writing articles and newsletters for university clubs. He was first published in an ASME engineering publication in 1992 and went on to author dozens of published articles in the commercial construction sector. In the 2000s, Hamele turned his research instincts toward historical fiction, developing more than a dozen story concepts-many of which have matured into his recent publishing journey. His work spans a wide range of genres, including historical fiction, near-future sci-fi, narrative biographies, and feel-good short stories. A prolific storyteller, Scott has more than two dozen works to his credit. SCOTT HAMELE was born and raised in Kansas and has called the Kansas City area home since 1991. Married for more than thirty years, he treasures time with his two daughters and two grandchildren. Scott studied engineering at the University of Kansas, where he began writing articles and newsletters for university clubs. He was first published in an ASME engineering publication in 1992 and went on to author dozens of published articles in the commercial construction sector. In the 2000s, Hamele turned his research instincts toward historical fiction, developing more than a dozen story concepts-many of which have matured into his recent publishing journey. His work spans a wide range of genres, including historical fiction, near-future sci-fi, narrative biographies, and feel-good short stories. A prolific storyteller, Scott has more than two dozen works to his credit.

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