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Deep within the hills of the future state of West Virginia in Ritchie County arises the real-life story of one young couple's desperate journey through the American Civil War. Based on surviving Mason Family letters written 1862 to 1864 and passed down five generations, relive the dangerous military campaigns waged by Volunteer Fourteenth Infantryman Company F Private Thomas Mason. In his own words, follow Thomas' desperate two-year quest in securing farm help for his childless wife Pleasy, voting on his West Virginia State's founding, enduring the monotonous Camp life in the Eastern Panhandle, dealing with his wife's loneliness, and keeping his farm afloat from a distance. Experience first-hand Thomas' military movements: attend a huge Military Rally in Parkersburg W.Va., board a steamboat bound for a March on Cloyd Mountain, cross the Greenbrier River after a burned-out bridge impedes their pursuit of Rebels, trudge over Big Sewell Mountain with no food, tear up and heat railroad track near Lexington Virginia, track Rebels after they slip away from Gettysburg, pursue Confederates into Washington County, Maryland, and scale Massanutten Mountain in the Shenandoah Valley in hopes of taking the signal station. Join the spiritual journey thrust upon one young couple as they find themselves trapped in the ugly web of War. Take the ride of your life and sense the true sacrifice so many before us made, both men and women, willingly enduring horrendous hardships to see that this Great Nation of ours, The United States of America, survived.

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Linda Joan Mason, a 1971 graduate of Williamstown High School in WV, has been a private piano teacher since 1983. She has written several newspaper articles for the Parkersburg News and Sentinel along with stories in WV Bowhunters Association's, ""The Voice"" and Pope and Young Club's, ""Ethic"" magazine on hunting, taxidermy, and hunting trips abroad. Teen Sunday School Teacher and Bible School Teacher for over 50 years, Linda has lent her piano skills to Williamstown's Strings Program, Williamstown's Elementary Choir, Williamstown's Middle School Choir, and Williamstown's High School Choir for dozens of performances over the last half-century. An accompanist since 1997 for the ""Musettes,"" a ladies singing group affiliated with the Williamstown Woman's Club, Mason has also been church pianist and organist at Crossroads Global Methodist since 1965. She enjoys camping, traveling, reading, and baking.

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