A gripping and thought-provoking work that is unlike any Civil War
novel previously written, Sharpshooter takes us into the mind of
one of the war's veterans as he attempts, years after the conflict,
to reconstruct his experiences and to find some measure of meaning
in them. A child of the divided East Tennessee mountain region,
Willis Carr left home at age thirteen to follow his father and
brothers on a bridge-burning mission for the Union cause.
Imprisoned at Knoxville, he agreed to join the Confederate army to
avoid being hanged and became a sharpshooter serving under General
Longstreet. He survived several major battles, including
Gettysburg, and eventually found himself guarding prisoners at the
infamous Andersonville stockade, where a former slave taught him to
read. After the war, haunted by his memories, Carr writes down his
story, revisits the battlefields, studies photographs and drawings,
listens to other veterans as they tell their stories, and pores
over memoirs and other books. Above all, he embues whatever he
hears, sees, and reads with his emotions, his imagination, and his
intellect. Yet, even as an old man nearing death, he still feels
that he has somehow missed the war, that something essential about
it has eluded him. Finally, in a searing moment of personal
revelation, a particular memory, long suppressed, rises to the
surface of Carr's consciousness and draws his long quest to a
poignant close. A compelling work of fiction from a writer who is
both a gifted novelist and a distinguished student of the Civil
War, David Madden's Sharpshooter invites us to see this signal
episode in American history in a new way--to grasp its facts, to
imagine what facts cannot convey, and to make the war our own.
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