Just days before President Lincoln’s assassination, Charlie Dickey rejoices with family and friends over Union victories, but Lincoln’s death shatters hope. Charlie has spent nearly three years fighting to save the Union and mourns the loss a brother and brother-in-law. He has also fallen in love with a southern belle, but the chaos of war threatens to become permanent.

1. Historical Fiction, based on real-life adventures of Civil War Soldier, Charlie Dickey
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2. T. Lyle Dickey offers to raise a regiment of cavalry and President Lincoln agrees.
The regiment becomes the Fourth Illinois Cavalry
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3. Charlie Dickey musters in to the Fourth Illinois Cavalry on August 12, 1861
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4. W.H.L. Wallace, Charlie’s brother-in-law, and his brother Cyrus enlist as part of the
Eleventh Illinois Infantry.
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5. General Grant and Admiral Foote conduct joint army/navy attacks
against Confederates batteries and western river forts.
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6. Shiloh Church,
Shiloh National
Battlefield
W. H. L. Wallace is mortally wounded at Shiloh,
but his leadership saves the Union from defeat.
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7. Charlie serves as Sherman’s bugler
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8. Charlie was assigned to General Grant’s escort
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9. Unidentified African
American soldier in
Union cavalry uniform
with cavalry saber
Charlie served as officer of the provost and skirmished alongside
African American troopers.
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10. Charles Henry Dickey, circa 1922
Courtesy of the Illinois Reading
Room, Ottawa Public Library
His story encompasses real people caught up in the
great events of the War Between the States.
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