Do you know God never leaves you alone? As you walk through life with all of its ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies, happy fun filled days and days of extreme loneliness, God never leaves you. At just the right time He will intervene or send an Angel into your life, if you will but be aware of them. This book is about the many times God has intervened in my life and those in my family by sending His Angels. There are many types of events from trips on the road, to times in hospitals having just received grave news, even to the events of our home literally falling in. But these interventions by God and His Angels havent just happened in my family, they have happened countless times in yours as well. My hope and prayer is that this book will fill you with peace and at the same time, encourage you to write down your own memories. I have included some questions to get you started. Because when those dry times come, as they do to all of us, when God seems so far away, you can read through your notes and journals and find peace knowing you were never, ever left alone. Events arent just that you were lucky, or it was a coincidence. No, God intervened and had you In The Presence of Angels.

This is a look into the life of an eighteen-year-old drummer boy from Worcester, Mass. who served in the Civil War for 100 days. It contains his daily diary entries from July 11, 1864 to November 4, 1864 when he finally "got to sleep in my own bed" followed by long descriptive letters home to his mother detailing his daily life. You accompany him on his cold, rainy, seasick journey on the Gen. McClellan, from Boston to Alexandria, Virginia. Then experience his frequent diet of coffee, burnt beans and hard tack with maggots, "once a cow ate some and died." You can visualize the muddy sultry streets with thousands of tents, wagons, soldiers, wounded and the dying, and feel his pain as he drums for funerals. He takes you to the battlefield of Bull Run and to farmhouses where they raided gardens for food. You learn about the punishment of soldiers, frequent skirmishes with the "Rebs" and then at mail call how happy he was to get boxes from home containing all his favorite things, once including moldy pickles, which he was determined to save. You experience first hand many difficult days then smile as he speaks about hearing "Abe" speak to them in Washington just before his regiment left to go home, a boy no more - now one who had experienced the Civil War up close and very personal.