This book profiles each of the soldiers who served in Maryland's 19th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, during the American Civil War. The profiles are based on the soldiers' military and pension files at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C.
The 19th Regiment saw action in Virginia at the battles of Weldon Railroad, Poplar Grove Church, Bermuda Hundred, Chapin's Farm, Hatcher's Run, and Petersburg. The Regiment was in the first wave of Union soldiers entering and ca...

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was a young 32-year-old country doctor who lived with his wife and children on a tobacco farm in Charles County, Maryland, about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. He was one of eight persons convicted of conspiracy in the 1865 Lincoln assassination trial, and served almost four years of a life sentence before receiving a pardon from President Andrew Johnson in 1869.Slavery was the underlying cause of Dr. Mudd's troubles. Like many of his fellow farmers and neigh...

Saturday, April 15, 1865Dr. Samuel A. Mudd opened his front door to the loud knocking at 4 a.m., and saw John Wilkes Booth, a man he had met a couple of times before. Booth had stayed overnight at Dr. Mudd's farm house the previous fall while visiting Southern Maryland, and the two men had met a second time a month later in Washington, D.C.Booth told Dr. Mudd that he and a companion were on their way to Washington, D.C. when his horse fell and broke Booth's...

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and seven others were convicted of conspiracy in the 1865 Lincoln assassination trial. Four of them, David Herold, John Atzerodt, Lewis Powell, and Mary Surratt, were hanged. Dr. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlen were sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson, a U.S. Army military prison located on an island in the Gulf of Mexico.Fort Jefferson housed Civil War deserters, murderers, thieves, and a host of other unsavory characters. It was a rough...

He’s my first love. My high school sweetheart. And he’s leaving tomorrow for a bigger and better life.I’ve loved Ben almost my entire life, and we have one night left before he heads miles away to college on a football scholarship. I’m bound and determined to make sure this day goes perfectly so he remembers me as the girl he loves. But I can’t help worrying that I’ll end up as the girl he loved.

One Golden Summer...When Toronto food stylist Leah Carter agrees to run her aunt's bakery in Prince Edward County for two months, she tells herself it's a pit stop—a summer of flour, lake breezes, and an easy escape back to the city.Then she runs into Noah Barrett—her first love, now a rising winemaker with a reputation as "the Prince of the County." His pitch is simple: partner with him for the Harvest Festival, pairing her pastries with his wines. The catch? Three weekend...

School’s out, but trouble is never far away. Can they survive a holiday with a moody tween, evil adversaries, and a potential war?Uncle Chip Proctor deserves a pat on the back. Sure it was touch and go for a little while there, but he’s pleased to have settled quite nicely into his role as a stay-at-home human guardian for two royal half-fae kids. But he’s soon rushing to whisk the thirteen-year-old queen-to-be away for summer break when unruly puberty angst delive...

The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them togetherIn 1965 writer-activist-monk Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger of losing it all. Yet on the very day that his abbot uncovered the affair, Merton found solace in an unlikely place—the songs of Bob Dylan, who, as fate would have it...

The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them togetherIn 1965 writer-activist-monk Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger of losing it all. Yet on the very day that his abbot uncovered the affair, Merton found solace in an unlikely place—the songs of Bob Dylan, who, as fate would have it,...

A popular and enduring time travel tale by one of science fiction's all-time greatsWhen Dan Davis is crossed in love and stabbed in the back by his business associates, the immediate future doesn't look too bright for him and Pete, his independent-minded tomcat. Suddenly, the lure of suspended animation, the Long Sleep, becomes irresistible and Dan wakes up 30 years later in the 21st century, a time very much to his liking.The discovery that the robot house...

Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach—and Dan’s life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the “long sleep”—suspended animation for thirty years.But when he awoke in the far different world of AD 2000, he made an amazing discovery. And suddenly Dan had the means to travel back in time—and ge...

Two journalists on a cross-country journey to capture the perfect image of the American spirit spend One Summer bringing their hearts into focus in this passionate novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.There’s no summer getaway for Celebrity magazine photographer Bryan Mitchell this year. Instead she’ll be spending three months on the road with renowned photojournalist Shade Colby. Their assignment is a nationwide p...